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The use of automated external defibrillators improves the survival of adults who suffer from cardiopulmonary arrest. Automated external defibrillators detect ventricular fibrillation with almost perfect sensitivity and specificity. Authors describe the use of automated external defibrillator during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a patient with sudden cardiac arrest during ice-hockey match. The article reports also the use of automated external defibrillators in children.

The paper makes the reader familiar with the results of activities of the central rehabilitation department in the Psychiatric Sanatorium in Kromĕríz. It postulates views regarding the technique of work with patients and pays special attention to the rehabilitation of patients with schizophrenic psychosis. In these patients the results of rehabilitation care at different rating levels were evaluated. In the field of ergotherapy the schizophrenic patients were evaluated by the therapists and instructors of occupational therapy on entry of and departure from the workshop or class, using the Engelsman--Hájek scale. Based on the results the hypothesis was confirmed of a lower working performance of patients with schizophrenic psychosis, as compared with other diagnostic groups. In the field of remedial exercise and special forms of psychiatric rehabilitation, such as educational and recreational activities, patients with schizophrenic psychosis were evaluated by a doctor and psychologist of the rehabilitation department of the psychiatric sanatorium for after--treatment of psychoses. The patients were evaluated by Wing's scale for chronic schizophrenia and by means of the Scale for Evaluation of Working Performance and Behaviour. According to the results of both scales no significant differences were found between the experimental groups where different forms of rehabilitation were accentuated, as compared with the control group engaged only in occupational therapy. Both scales revealed in both experimental groups highly significant improvement as regards resocialization within a very short period during which the patients were subjected to intense rehabilitation. Based on these results the author recommends further rehabilitation provisions.