为何医院热衷于使用自动体外除颤器（AED）来应对心脏骤停。

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Few people other than ICU personnel routinely use and become comfortable with conventional defibrillator, prompting more and more hospitals to install automatic external defibrillators. The practice is too new to know if there's a downside.

除重症监护室人员外，很少有人经常使用传统除颤器并能熟练操作，这促使越来越多的医院安装自动体外除颤器。这种做法太新，目前还不清楚是否存在不利之处。