The first AED was manufacturered by Cardiac Resuscitator Corporation of Lake Oswego, Oregon. R. Lee Heath hand-made the very first electrode pads for the first use of this revolutionary concept. It was first used on offshore oil drilling platforms and in Great Britian. Years later the modern AED is much smaller and now deployed thoughout the world in airports, planes, trains, with first responders, and even in the home and have saved thousands of cardiac arrest victims.

Without Mr. Heath's critical inventions such an instrument, and the saving of these lives, would not have been possible.

   

Pictured at left is the very first HeartAid model. At right is a later model.