Description
Philips HeartStart FR1 Features:
- Also known as the Philips HeartStart Forerunner, it is a semi-automatic defibrillator.
- Equipped with an LCD screen displaying prompts for resuscitation, patient information, and ECG readings.
- Lightweight and portable, running on battery power.
- Conducts periodic self-diagnostic tests to ensure system readiness.
- Can analyze the patient’s ECG reading to determine the need for a shock.
- Can deliver a minimum of 130 joules of energy in a shock if necessary.
- Offers easy usability and intuitive operation.
- Utilizes disposable, recyclable sealed lithium batteries.
- Provides a nominal 150 Joule energy shock with less than 10 seconds of charge time.
- Features a high-resolution backlit LCD screen displaying ECG and informational text messages.
- Uses disposable and self-adhesive defibrillation pads.
- Offers an optional PC data card for recording event information, ECG, voice, and other audible activity.
Philips HeartStart FR1 Specifications:
Dimensions:
- Height: 2.53 in. (6.4 cm)
- Width: 8.75 in. (22.3 cm)
- Depth: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
- Weight (With battery): 4.4 lbs (2 kg)
Battery:
- 16 VDC 1300 mAH lithium
- Disposable, recyclable, long-life, primary cells
- Capacity: 100 shocks or 5 hours of operating time
- Shelf-Life: 5 Years
Display:
- High-resolution backlight LCD
- Height: 2.3 in. (5.8 cm)
- Width: 2.8 in. (7 cm)
Defibrillator:
- Waveform: Truncated Exponential Biphasic
- Energy: Single Energy—a nominal of 150 Joules (minimum of 130 Joules) delivered to a 50-ohm load
- Charge Control: Under control of the Patient Analysis System for semi-automatic operation
- Charge Time: Typically less than 10 seconds
- Shock-to-Shock Cycle Time: Typically less than 20 seconds
- Shock Discharge Control: Delivered by a single shock button
Disarming Defibrillator:
- Semi-automatic operation: Disarms under various conditions including a no-shock decision, turning off the device, or removing the defibrillation pads from the patient.
- Manual operation: Disarms under conditions such as not delivering a shock within 30 seconds after charging, manual override button press, or turning off the device.
ECG Display:
- Monitored Lead: ECG information acquired through defibrillation pads in anterior-anterior (Lead II) placement
- Display Range: Differential: ±2 mV full scale nominal
- Sweep Speed: 23 mm/sec nominal
- Frequency Response: 1 Hz to 20 Hz (-3 dB) nominal
- Sensitivity: 1.16 cm/mV nominal
- Heart Rate: Displayed range of 30 to 300 beats per minute updated each analysis period, displayed during monitoring mode and if ECG is shown.



