System and method for monitoring and controlling, defibrillation and pacing which allows a victim of a cardiac rhythm abnormality immediate access to a medical professional at a central station, who will remotely monitor, diagnose and treat the victim at one of a plurality of remote sites in accordance with the following steps:(1) providing a plurality of contact electrodes for a victim at a remote site for the receipt of ECG signals and for the application of electrical pulses to the victim；(2) transmitting the signals from the remote site to a central station and displaying them for review by the medical professional；(3) the medical professional selecting from a menu of defibrillation and pacing pulses, if the application thereof is appropriate；(4) transmitting the selection results to the remote site； and(5) receiving the selection results at the remote site and applying the selected pulses to the victim.
