Does my Business need an AED?

It is unbelievable that the American Heart Association (AHA) reports that 250,000 people will die this year due to Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). For many victims, death results from a big medical word called Ventricular Fibrillation (V-Fib). What does that mean to the average person? It means your heart starts freaking out, beating chaotically, really irregular, not really pumping blood and oxygen to all your vital organs. What happens next? You die in minutes.

So, many years ago we were introduced to the AED. It is the lay person's version of the machine we see people on TV get shocked with. They make them small, in different colors, totally automatic, and relatively cheap. They talk to you and tell you everything to do. They make people who would otherwise die, come back to life. It's really that simple. Something like improving the possibility of surviving a heart attack from about 5% to 50%, pretty great results.

What's the problem then? Why doesn't every office building, school, public building, etc have one? Good question! It boils down to education and money. Most people have no idea what an AED is or what it does. Most business owners don't realize for under $2500.00, they can have piece of mind in knowing they are doing everything possible to increase not only their employees' chances of surviving a Sudden Cardiac Arrest, but their own as well.

We spend money on the fastest copiers, the latest technology of computers, we hire people to help us be more productive, but we wont do one of the easiest and smartest things out there like buy and AED and train people in CPR. Everyday the local papers and news stations tell us of famous people dying like Tim Russert and Bernie Mac of Cardiac Arrest. I wonder the outcome if an AED was available and people were trained to use it on them. I wonder if maybe, just maybe, we would still have one of the world's best comics and actors, and TV reporter/commentators still with us? Don't wait and let an incident at your office or school become part of another statistic. Demand that your school, your office, your church invest is protecting your life and the life of those you care most about.

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