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AED-Friendly Bill Clears Senate and Assembly Committees Patch.com By Russ Crespolini The Good Samaritan Law that absolves liability in case of injury, does not extend to a person owning or using an automatic external defibrillator during a cardiac arrest. A pair of bills about to hit the floor of the senate mean to ... Cintas Announces Top 10 Recommended Facilities for an AEDMarketWatch (press release) Bystanders Can Save Lives in Cardiac Arrest with AEDs: Dr. ZichMyFox Chicago all 9 news articles »

Janet's Law passes Assembly committee and with the blessing of minority leader ... New Jersey Hills 2, in Trenton, making it the first automated external defibrillator (AED) school-related legislation to pass through committees in the Senate and Assembly in New Jersey history. The bill, A-1608, is named in honor of Janet Zilinski, an 11-year-old from ... and more »

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Wes Leonard Heart Team donates three AEDs to Grand Rapids schools The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com By Monica Scott | MLive Media Group TJ Hamilton The Grand Rapids PressMichelle Brines of Cadillac High School gets instruction from Eric Reeve, an AMR paramedic during a Spectrum event last year about Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and sudden ... "Clear!" A Shock to the Heart Won't HurtNewswise (press release) Hospital effort may save lives before patients arrive (2/3/12)PennLive.com all 3 news articles »

Racquetball match ends with heart attack Plainview Daily Herald Montelongo, with the help of the Y's AED machine, helped revive Aguirre, who said he now has two stents and a pacemaker. It had been so long since Octavio Aguirre and AC Montelongo lost as racquetball doubles partners that when it happened at the ...

Free CPR And AED Training For Coloradans KMGH Denver By Christine Chang, 7NEWS Anchor VAIL -- Lynn Blake of Vail is making it her mission to teach everyone she can about the importance of CPR and Automated External Defibrillator's. She turned a donated bus into the Heart Rod so she could take the ... CPR education course to be offered in UticaUtica Observer Dispatch all 7 news articles »

Businesses urged to invest in first-aid equipment Gazette Series St John Ambulance called on doctor and dentist surgeries, leisure facilities and shopping centres last week to help prevent untimely deaths by keeping an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) on site at all times. An AED is designed to shock the heart ... and more »

Woodbury trains its 'Heroes of the Heart' on new CPR Minneapolis Star Tribune Paradise, now 20, stopped his head-slamming while someone ran to get an automated external defibrillator (AED). Paradise and others did compressions and mouth-to-mouth, using a mask she had in her purse, until the AED was hooked up.

Workplace Lifesavers News Channel 7 (more) A man saved at work by a fast thinking co-worker and an AED. David Lynn works at the Michelin plant in Spartanburg, one of many employers that train employees on how to use Automated External Defibrillators. And with 10000 sudden cardiac arrests ...

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Susan's Story: CPR Training Can Save Lives CBS Local But Susan survived because of CPR and the use of an AED (Automated External Defibrillator). The statistics are staggering, four out of five Cardiac Arrests happen in the home. Also, 19 out of 20 victims die, and only 30 percent of Americans are trained ... and more »

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Huntsville first-responders, HEMSI honored at Huntsville Havoc hockey game al.com (blog) Webster also noted the VBC added new automated external defibrillators (AED) machines this week that will help in the event anyone visiting the center has a heart attack. Ron Grimes, director of operations and public security for the VBC, ... and more »