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A successful program requires more than just purchasing any AED and placing it within your facility. It entails selecting the right AED as all AEDs are NOT created equally, developing policies and procedures, having the appropriate number of personnel properly trained, conducting an assessment of each location to ensure a three to five minute response can be achieved, and overall implementing a streamlined process to make sure the AED is routinely checked and batteries and electrodes are replaced. This is where LifeServers can become an invaluable resource to you and your company. We are here to assist you in developing a successful AED PROGRAM

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Where is your AED... check your smartphone!

Obviously, knowing how to use an AED properly is important, and most devices now include written or even audio instructions. However, none of this is of any use if a potential rescuer cannot locate the device, or if it’s stored too far away to be useful.

Here is a study that could potentially save thousands of lives! Researchers from the University of PennsylvaniaPerlman School of Medicine found that in 75 percent of cases,automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are too far away from cardiac arrest victims for the devices to have the best chance at saving lives.

The Penn researchers conducted the “MyHeartMap Challenge”, a crowd sourcing contest that asked Philadelphians to use a special smartphone app to find and map the locations of all of the city’s AEDs. More than 1,500 AEDs in 800 separate buildings were found and tagged. That information will go into a new smartphone app to help bystanders easily locate the nearest AED during an emergency.

This project needs replication in every city, town, and community in the U.S.

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Framingham Woman Survives Heart Scare Thanks To ‘Guardian Angels’

By Paul Burton, WBZ-TV | Original Article

WOBURN (CBS) – Andrea Cronin of Framingham says she has a lot to be thankful for this Easter.

“How to do you say thank you to someone for saving your life,” she cried.

Just last month, the 46-year-old almost died after collapsing inside the bathroom of a Woburn hockey rink.

She went into ventricular fibrillation, where the heart is “fluttering fast and not pumping effectively,” Andrea’s husband George Cronin said.

Fortunately for Andrea, there were plenty of guardian angels all around her.

ATHLETES LEARNING LIFESAVING SKILLS AT SOME LOCAL SCHOOLS

Brittan Sutphin was a 16-year-old multisport athlete at a Colorado high school when she almost died during a routine swim practice. Sutphin hadn’t completed one 50-meter lap when she lost consciousness and sunk to the bottom of the pool. She suffered sudden cardiac arrest and almost drowned.

A quick-thinking teammate saw Sutphin go under and pulled her out of the water. Her swim coach administered CPR while a lifeguard retrieved an automated external defibrillator (AED). Sutphin’s rescuers managed to revive her.

There was no emergency action plan in place. Things just happened to work out that day for Sutphin, who currently is a sophomore tennis player at Claremont McKenna College near Los Angeles. A year ago she became an ambassador for Advocates for Injured Athletes (A4IA), a nonprofit dedicated to supporting student-athletes.

She helped A4IA recently launch Athletes Saving Athletes (ASA), a free educational pilot program that’s expected to reach more than 300 San Diego high school student-athletes this year. It’s designed to teach lifesaving skills and provide information on how to implement an emergency action plan.

ASA debuted at Santa Fe Christian High in January and held its second program this month at Torrey Pines High.

“Wherever you’ve got someone who knows CPR and an AED on site, the odds of survival go up.”

Electrical shock brought counselor back into rhythm

By Lauren Hepler

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Sunday January 29, 2012 5:49 AM

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For a while, Dec. 15 was like any other day for Robbin Goods.

The violence-prevention educator with the nonprofit Community for New Direction was working with students at Ohio Avenue Elementary School on the city’s East Side. Then her heart stopped.

“They said I was laughing, and I sort of just keeled over,” Goods said recently.

She was told that a nurse grabbed the school’s automatic external defibrillator — a device that delivers an electrical shock to stabilize heart rhythm — and attached it to Goods’ chest.

“After it shocked me the first time, I sort of came to,” she said.

Goods, 35, was taken to Grant Medical Center and was kept under observation for a week. She said doctors weren’t sure why she went into cardiac arrest but told her the school’s defibrillator kept her alive.

Training, experience helped parks-rec employee save a life

Mark Rechsteiner, a recreation leader at the UA Senior Center, was at work Dec. 2 when a man had a heart attack. With help from others at the center that day, Rechsteiner used chest compressions, then an AED, to resuscitate him. The man is again a regular at the center.