Helping Citizens Save Lives - Andrew Cohn Automatic External Defibrillator Program

About the Program

Category: Risk and Emergency Management (Best in Category)

Year: 2011

The helping citizens Save Lives - Andrew Cohn Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) Project is an innovative program that allows volunteers to bring critical life saving technologies to major events. If a person suffering cardiac arrest can have an AED placed on them within the first three minutes of the event, their chance of survival will increase by 85 percent. Sudden cardiac arrest occurs 900 times a day in the United States. After a local 15 year-old boy passed away from such an arrest, local Fire Rescue personnel decided that they could be doing more to help prevent a recurrence because they cannot be everywhere all the time This program helps protect groups such as sports teams, Boy Scouts, church groups, and local assemblies. Everyone the group comes into contact with can benefit from these devices as well.