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Philips HeartStart Defibrillators Awards and Accolades

Philips is the market leader in innovative defibrillation technology.1 We offer award-winning resuscitation products, helping rescuers treat sudden cardiac arrest quickly and effectively wherever it occurs.

Philips HeartStart Defibrillators have been recognized with the following awards:

  • Today's Facility Manager Magazine, "First Place Reader's Choice Award", 2004
  • Fortune Magazine, "Best Products of the Year", 2004
  • Forbes.com, "Ten Gadgets That Will Improve Your Life", 2004
  • Popular Science, “Best of What’s New” award, 2003
  • USA Weekend "Best Innovations of 2003"
  • Frost & Sullivan, Technology Leadership Award, 2003
  • Frost & Sullivan, New Care Setting of the Year Award, 2003
  • Industrial Design Excellence Award (Gold), 2003
  • Medical Design Excellence Award 2003
  • BusinessWeek/USA Today, “Best Product of 2002”
  • Readers Choice Award, Occupational Safety & Health, 1998
  • Business Week Gold and Silver awards, 1997
  • Popular Science “Best of What’s New” issue called the Heartstream defibrillator "one of the year's 100 greatest achievements in science and technology", December 1997
  • German Red Dot Award for High Design, 1997
  • Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), 1997
  • Finalist, Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, 1996
  • In Peter S. Cohan’s book, "The Technology Leaders: How America's Most Profitable High-Tech Companies Innovate Their Way to Success", Heartstream was cited as one of America's most innovative technology leaders.2

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References
1. Frost & Sullivan
2. Published in August 1997 by The Jossey-Bass Business & Management series

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The Facts
The underlying cause of SCA is not well understood. Many victims have no previous history of heart disease, or if heart disease is present, it has not functionally impaired them.