System and Method for Effectively Indicating Element Failure or a Preventive Maintenance Condition in an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)

A status indicator system for an automatic external defibrillator (AED) comprising:

• an AED;
• an active status indicator processor, the active status indicator being contained within a housing of the AED;
• the active status indicator processor for determining when self-tests for the AED should be executed and for controlling one or more alarms over a plurality of alarm activation windows, each alarm activation window comprising a magnitude of time less than one hour and during which a meaningful alert is produced by the active status indicator processor to provide status information of an element that is part of the AED.

A status indicator system for an automatic external defibrillator (AED) comprising:

• an AED;
• an active status indicator processor, the active status indicator being contained within a housing of the AED;
• the active status indicator processor for controlling one or more alarms over a plurality of alarm activation windows, each alarm activation window comprising a magnitude of time in which a meaningful alert is produced by a plurality of alarms activated within each alarm activation window to provide status information of an element that is part of the AED.