450B.595 - “Automated external defibrillator” and “defibrillator” defined. - Nevada Statutes

450B.595  “Automated external defibrillator” and “defibrillator” defined.  As used in NRS 450B.595 to 450B.620, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, “automated external defibrillator” or “defibrillator” means a medical device that:

      1.  Has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration;

      2.  Is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia in a patient;

      3.  Is capable of determining, without intervention by the operator of the device, whether defibrillation should be performed on a patient;

      4.  Upon determining that defibrillation should be performed on a patient, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to the patient’s heart; and

      5.  Upon appropriate action by the operator of the device, delivers an appropriate electrical impulse to the patient’s heart.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 777)