EXTERNAL DEFIBRILATOR TO MANAGE ELECTRONIC THERAPY TO A PATIENT, AND METHOD FOR SELECTING ONE OF A PLURALITY OF WARNING LANGUAGES THROUGH AN EXTERNAL DEFIBRILATOR.
A multilingual external defibrillator is operable by a rescuer during a rescue to select one of several available languages for prompting. Following issuance of a first prompt in the default language, a second prompt is issued in a second language which instructs the user to actuate a specified control of the defibrillator to select the second language for prompting. If the user responds by actuating the specified control within a predetermined period of time following the second prompt, the defibrillator issues subsequent prompts in the second language. Alternatively and optionally, if the user successfully performs the action instructed by the first prompt, the defibrillator continues to issue subsequent prompts in the first language. If the user inadvertently switches to the second language, the user is optionally given an additional period of time to actuate a control of the defibrillator to revert to prompting in the first language.
