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Philips Receives Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award for Its HeartStart Home DefibrillatorPhilips Electronics, today announced that it has received a Gold award for its HeartStart Home Defibrillator in the 2003 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition.
Presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and sponsored by BusinessWeek, the IDEA is widely regarded as the premiere award for industrial design.
The Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator is the first of a new generation of defibrillators designed specifically for the home.
Defibrillators provide treatment for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), a leading cause of death in the United States that claims a quarter million lives each year. Less than five percent of victims survive, largely because defibrillation therapy does not reach them within the first few critical minutes following an arrest. For each minute that passes without treatment, the chance for survival decreases by about 10 percent. After 10 minutes, few attempts at resuscitation are successful.
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