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AED | EMERGENCY
Why do you need an AED?
What would you do…?
Your office manager, Jane, is walking to the break room for lunch. On the way down the hall, she suddenly collapses. She’s young,
has no known health problems, and no history of medical complications. Yet, she’s unconscious, is no longer breathing, and has no
heartbeat. Jane is the victim of sudden cardiac arrest.
How do you respond?
Approximately 380,000 emergency medical service (EMS)-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually in the U.S. Permanent
loss of brain function can start to occur in just four to six minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest. Few attempts at
resuscitation succeed after 10 minutes.
The irregular heartbeat that occurs during a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) event cannot be corrected without the use of cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) and an automated external defibrillator (AED). Having an AED on site could help save a life.
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