James Francis Pantridge, usually known as Frank Pantridge, was a Northern Irish physician, cardiologist and professor who lived from 1916 to 2004, and who transformed emergency medicine and paramedic services with the invention of the portable defibrillator. He was born in Hillsborough, County Down, and graduated in medicine from Queen's University of Belfast in 1939. He served in the British Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and was awarded the Military Cross during the Fall of Singapore. After the war he studied under the cardiologist Frank Norman Wilson at the University of Michigan.
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James Francis Pantridge, (3 October 1916-26 December 2004), usually known as Frank Pantridge, was a Northern Irish physician, cardiologist, and professor who transformed emergency medicine and paramedic services with the invention of the portable defibrillator.
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James Francis Pantridge, (3 October 1916 - 26 December 2004), usually known as Frank Pantridge, was a Northern Irish physician, cardiologist, and professor who transformed emergency medicine and paramedic services with the invention of the portable defibrillator.
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The portable version of the defibrillator was invented in the mid-1960s by Frank Pantridge in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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