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MEDTECH FIRM SIGNS UK HEALTH DEAL

IRVINE - Cardiac Science Inc. has been named by the British Department of Health (BDH), part of Britain's National Health Service, as its sole provider of life-saving automated public access defibrillators (AEDs).

The contract calls for the BDH to purchase approximately $3 million of the company's Powerheart G3 AEDs and associated accessories for distribution under its National Defibrillator Programme - the world's largest government-sponsored public access defibrillation program.

The contract represents the largest government purchase of AEDs in history.

Cardiac Science was awarded the sole source contract after a lengthy procurement process which included rigorous due diligence and a detailed review of all AED products available in the market.

The current phase of England's National Defibrillator Programme is focused on providing more than 2,000 AEDs to ambulance services throughout England in an effort to significantly grow the number of AED-equipped first responders within their respective local areas as well as deployments in public places.

According to the BDH, coronary heart disease is the largest single cause of death in England and the National Service Framework has set a target of reducing the death rate by 200,000 in 2010.
 
Twelve thousand people suffer a cardiac arrest in a public place every year in Britain and the introduction of automated external defibrillators is expected to increase the chances of survival for many of those people.

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