WelchAllyn was and is a well-known brand among general practitioners. WelchAllyn has launched two types of AED: the AED10 and the AED20. The AED20 was a very rare phenomenon, but the WelchAllyn AED10 was a fairly widely sold AED, of which many hundreds have been sold. The WelchAllyn AED10 has also been available as the PIC10 and as the MRL JumpStart AED.
Unfortunately, the AED10 from WelchAllyn experienced a series of technical problems and recalls, so this AED has not been available since April 2009. Production was restarted in November 2009, but no longer at the WelchAllyn factories themselves, instead it was produced at Zoll factories, another medical manufacturer of AEDs.
In November 2010 it was reported that production of the WelchAllyn AED10 for the US market had stopped and in February 2011 a total shutdown of production was announced.
Since January 1, 2014, WelchAllyn no longer offers repair support for the WelchAllyn AED10. The supply of accessories such as batteries and electrodes has also subsequently stopped.