One in youth has an undetected heart condition that puts them at risk. We will set an appointment with you and your team to overview the implementation process. Use these tools to educate your school community about sudden cardiac arrest in youth. Everything and everyone involved are connected, reducing unnecessary delays when a SCA occurs. AEDs are effective only if they are close at hand and ready to work. Whether you have one AED, or spread across the globe, now you can know the readiness status and location of each one.
Ongoing system maintenance has been time-consuming and error-prone—until now. Battery not charged? Wi-Fi connectivity can give emergency responders a complete picture of each SCA event. After an event, all information can be seamlessly sent via a cellular network or Wi-Fi and integrated into one patient care record report, without having to download event data directly from the AED.
This significantly reduces pauses in chest compressions, even eliminating pauses if the rhythm is determined to be nonshockable. And more CPR means improved blood circulation and better odds of survival. Proven superior by competitive testing, the CR2 will keep the rescuer focused on what really matters—saving a life. For a minimally trained responder, intervening in an unfolding emergency can be intimidating. Responders need the easiest possible AED to instill confidence. The CR2 was rated easiest to use, easiest to hear and highest in overall user confidence by AED users.
It lists the warning signs and appropriate actions needed for a heart attack victim. The sessions are highly interactive with discussions, group exercises, sharing of best practices and much more. The AED Foundation wants you to be able to take advantage of the educational offerings it provides in a format that fits and benefits you, your company and your colleagues.
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Join AED. So, what can you do? Awareness and education head the objective of making every school a heart-safe environment. However, more still needs to be done. Thankfully, several issues that the nurse survey showed were issues with practical and achievable solutions. During the survey, nurses suggested methods for improving the AED program:. Our survey showed that nurses are spread thinly across schools and districts.
This information is not new. Nurses cannot be in all places at once, but they can still implement proper AED protocol. AED rescue drills and response plans , in addition to fire and earthquake drills, can be implemented into a school. They must achieve program milestones before we give them an AED. We go through a webinar and provide educational printed materials and videos, etc.
AEDs treat patients in SCA by sending a safe electric shock to the heart of a person in cardiac arrest that restores a normal heart rhythm. What you see here is just the beginning! December 23, Last Updated: November 17, Download the full PDF guide:. Guide Sections:. Survey Methodology. Data-entry errors Restrictions from recipients on receiving external emails Emails that are no longer valid due to a change in employment circumstances i.
Accessibility Obstacles. Therefore, AEDs should always be easily and readily accessible on school campuses AEDs are designed to be easy to use, even by lay-people with little training.
Martha Lopez-Anderson. Executive Director of Parent Heart Watch. Anonymous Nurse. New Hampshire. Community Size. It should be known that the use of an AED requires very little training. There are several reasons that this may have occurred:.
Cases like this are not only tragic but can be cause for litigation. Lawsuits can also originate from expired AEDs. Nurse-to-school Responsibilities. Public vs. Private vs. Private and public schools both had the majority of AED ages greater than 7 years.
Does your school have an emergency response plan? Title 1 Schools.
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