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The study evaluated whether superior-head AED placement improves the single-rescuer defibrillation workflow.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study combined a randomized four-sequence crossover manikin simulation (32 healthcare providers; 128 evaluable trials) comparing four prespecified AED positions\u2014superior-head placement (position D) versus alternative placements (positions A\u2013C)\u2014with a retrospective cohort of 213 AED-treated adult cardiac-arrest cases from six centers (57 with position D, 156 with other positions). The primary simulation outcome was compression-to-first-shock time; the primary clinical outcome was the collapse-to-first-shock interval. Secondary outcomes included AED-related hands-off time, chest compression fraction, NASA Task Load Index workload, and procedural safety.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      In the simulation, position D shortened compression-to-first-shock time by 14.8\u201326.3\u202fs relative to the other positions (all Holm-adjusted\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001), reduced AED-related hands-off time, increased chest compression fraction (83% vs. 78\u201380%), and lowered perceived workload (all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001), without increasing critical errors; over-body actions were least frequent with position D. In the retrospective cohort, the adjusted median difference in the collapse-to-first-shock interval was \u22120.42\u202fmin (approximately 25\u202fs; 95% CI, \u22120.91 to 0.07;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.092); estimates consistently favored position D across sensitivity, restricted-cohort, weighted, and leave-one-center-out analyses, although every confidence interval crossed the null. Patient outcomes did not differ by AED position.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Superior-head AED placement improved the efficiency, compression continuity, and workload of simulated single-rescuer CPR. The retrospective clinical findings were directionally consistent but statistically inconclusive and should be regarded as hypothesis-generating rather than confirmatory. 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