.svg)
A Portable, Life-Saving Defibrillator
Heartstream
Designing a complicated device that’s affordable and transportable
As many as one-third of the 300,000 annual cardiac arrest fatalities in the US could be avoided if defibrillation was applied within minutes of the cardiac event.
Working with Heartstream, IDEO tested the effectiveness of alternative defibrillator configurations with different users to help develop a highly mobile and easy-to-operate product. Heartstream systematically refined the concept with the goal of making its defibrillators affordable, transportable, and as ubiquitous as fire extinguishers.
(This device is now manufactured by Philips.)
Press stories
No items found.
Curious about how this kind of thinking could benefit your organization? We’d love to hear from you.
If you could include any details or anecdotes about what brought you here today, it will help make sure we get you connected to the best person right away.
Subscribe
Want more IDEO in your life?
Sign up for our newsletter.
We send out regular newsletters with thought leadership, stories behind our new work, events we’re hosting or attending, and a whole bunch more.