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Old 07-23-2021, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by kpd3062 View Post
So I live in a newer Village. Neighbors have been collecting to purchase some AED’s. One of my neighbors said in his last Village he was one of the “Captain’s “ I think they are called. I asked how often the AED’s were used and he said never to his knowledge. I was wondering if there are statistics on how often they are used in TV and the success rates? Thanks
A community AED (and the trained users to go with it) is like insurance. You hope you will never need it but you want to be prepared in case you do. We have had ours for about 6 years and have had three call outs in that time period. Two were already too late, one was resuscitated but died later.
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