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Mobile Fire-Rescue Department EMS Division

Mobile Fire-Rescue Department EMS Division. EMS Chief AED PRESENTATION. What Are AEDs?. Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) allow trained lay rescuers to successfully deliver defibrillation even before EMS can arrive.

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Mobile Fire-Rescue Department EMS Division

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  1. Mobile Fire-Rescue Department EMS Division EMS Chief AED PRESENTATION

  2. What Are AEDs? • Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) allow trained lay rescuers to successfully deliver defibrillation even before EMS can arrive. • AEDs are safe, effective, lightweight, durable, low maintenance and easy to use. • AEDs interpret heart rhythm and determine if a shock is required. The unit prompts the rescuer to deliver the shock, if necessary. An AED will NOT shock someone who does not need defibrillation.

  3.      The ONLY known solution for ventricular fibrillation is . . . EARLY DEFIBRILLATION What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest? • The heart stops abruptly and unconsciousness follows • Usually caused by Ventricular Fibrillation (abnormal chaotic heart rhythm which causes the heart’s pumping action to quickly stop). Not the same as heart attack • Results in death if not treated immediately

  4. followed by public locations, such as: • Work Sites • Airports • Churches • Event Centers • Anywhere large amountsof people congregate Where Do Most Sudden Cardiac Arrests Occur? Most Sudden cardiac arrests occur in the home

  5. The Impact of Sudden Cardiac Arrest • 340,000 people die each year from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) - that is about 900 per day! • 90% of SCAs occur outside of the hospital • Less than 5% survive SCA • If AEDs were more readily available, approximately 50,000 lives could be saved each year

  6. What Can YOU do to Help? Be a Strong Link in theChain of Survival Early Defibrillation

  7. What About Liability? • You are Covered by Law: • Alabama’s Good Samaritan Act • Federal Cardiac Arrest Survival Act (CASA) • A person experiencing an SCA is clinically dead. Use of an AED to resuscitate can do no additional harm • Perceived standard of care • Proving medical causation is extremely difficult (who caused the death)

  8. Get the Patient to the Hospital

  9. QUESTIONS THE END

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