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Hello, I am just joined. I had some questions and thought I would ask the experts! I was a volunteer firefighter in southern MN, but now currently work as a consultant to help businesses and organizations set up public access defibrillators (PADs). I want to make PADs more community friendly and had some questions.
As many of you have read, public access defibrillators can help provide necessary treatment prior to EMS arrival. In the field do you see these working or do Good Samaritans just not know how to use them? Know where they are?
Does your department actively help in training of these defibrillators and do you know where every AED is in your community?
We see a lot of what is going on from inside the business or organization and I want to try to combine what we are doing to help assist local EMS thus increasing the chance of survival for the patient.
As many of you have read, public access defibrillators can help provide necessary treatment prior to EMS arrival. In the field do you see these working or do Good Samaritans just not know how to use them? Know where they are?
Does your department actively help in training of these defibrillators and do you know where every AED is in your community?
We see a lot of what is going on from inside the business or organization and I want to try to combine what we are doing to help assist local EMS thus increasing the chance of survival for the patient.