ECG Reading from Client's AED

Pulseless Electrical Activity….almost as good as a flatline…..therefore “No Shock Advised“.

Art Jones the Saviour

“He just went down on the ice, but a couple of the guys are city workers and realized what was happening,” he said.

Doug Clancy, then manager of an arena at Erindale College, joined him doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but they feared “we were going to lose him.”

Jones, who trained on the defibrillator about one month earlier, fetched the portable unit and got the victim’s heart beating with one jolt before paramedics arrived.

“I was at the other end of the lobby with my partner, Marco, and I just said ‘call 911′ and we started running and I grabbed the defibrillator and in I went,” he said, noting the arena has two public access defibrillators on-site for such incidents.

When Jones arrived at the scene, he found a 52-year-old regular named Wally down on the ice – unconscious, but still breathing.

“When I got over to (Wally) I started pulling out the unit and got his shirt up just in case he went down and, sure enough, he started going blue and stopped breathing. I had to slap the pads on his chest and hit him with a jolt,” Jones recalled.

With just the one reviving jolt, Wally’s eyes fluttered, his heart restarted and he was breathing again, albeit with laboured breaths, Jones said.

Friends were preparing to do mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions Thursday, but Jones intervened. “He’s going to be okay,” he said.

Grateful at the recognition, especially from arena regulars, he stressed “it’s important for people to realize the units are there, and to get training. Seconds count. If you can save a life, that’s what it’s all about.”

Living Sword Karate Donation

Covenant had been looking for ways to get the device into their budget when Living Sword Karate stepped in to help raise the funds through its “warrior weekend” events.

Volunteering their time and donating the proceeds of the events, Living Sword Karate’s instructors and parents put on fun, martial arts-themed sleepovers, quickly raising the money to get an AED, and even raised enough so that a second one is in sight.

According to the American Heart Association, more than 294,000 Americans experience sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital each year. On average in the U.S., just 7.9 percent of victims survive.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and early defibrillation with an AED more than double a victim’s chance of survival. Communities with comprehensive AED programs that include training of anticipated rescuers in both CPR and AED use have achieved survival rates of 40 percent or higher.

Karate is built on the principle of personal responsibility for one’s safety and the safety of others, and that starts with careful planning for emergencies.

“We teach our students how to defend themselves if need be and, like self-defense, we hope that the AED never has to be used but it will always be there just in case,” said Kristin Nelson, owner and head instructor of Living Sword Karate.

Families who purchase our AEDs for home use also benefit from this offer.

The terms and conditions are as follows:
1. There must be at least one shock discharged as seen on the ECG analysis.
2. The date and time of the event must be disclosed to us.
3. Used AED battery must be returned to us.
4. Replacement is limited to the first event only.
5. Original procurement of device must be direct from us.
5. Offer excludes clients whose core businesses are in the provision of medical emergency services.

Why are we doing this?

Because we want you to be safe!

15-year old Michael White had to be revived on scene with a defibrillator.

That incident once again focuses on the issue of player safety in high school athletics.

In Apex High, the trainer and his assistant are both nationally certified, which goes beyond requirements.

Apex’s trainer Miles Kliewer explained his philosophy.

“In the athletic training world, it’s always better to err on the side of being conservative and pretty much all of us take that approach,” Kliewer said.

For players in Apex, the days of simply getting a doctors OK to play are long gone.

For Apex, means having multiple automatic defibrillators available at sporting events instead of the required single defibrillator.

“We’re doing everything we can medically to keep kids healthy,” explained Apex High Athletic director Del Phillips.

“You’ve got to protect people,” said Phillips. “No game is worth losing someone’s life.”

And although Miles Kliewer may work at Apex, he knows requiring that a defibrillator be available for the Cary linebacker who collapsed this weekend was the key to saving the youngster’s life.