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Table 1 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

From: Automated external cardioversion defibrillation monitoring in cardiac arrest: a randomized trial

Inclusion Criteria:

1. All patients admitted to telemetry ward and ER.

2. Age > 18 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Pregnant women.

2. Patients with R wave less than 0.5 mV in lead II.

3. Patients with functioning ICDs.

4. Patients with cardiac pacemakers if oversensing by AECD is demonstrated (double counting of pacer spikes).

5. Patients with visible chest lesions that would prevent AECD pad placement.

6. Patients who are designated DNR.

7. Right bundle branch block.

8. Patients with Parkinson's disease.

9. Patients with seizure disorders.

Additional Exclusion Criteria for Emergency Room:

10. Patients with dementia and/or delirium.

11. Patients presenting with psychiatric complaints.

12. Patients who are agitated.

13. Patients presenting with trauma.

14. Patients unable to participate in the informed consent process.

15. Patients with respiratory rate greater than twenty.

16. Patients who report pain greater than four out of ten in the visual analog scale.

  1. ER = emergency room; ICD = internal cardioverter defibrillator; AECD = automated external cardioverter defibrillator; DNR = do not resuscitate