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AED AWARENESS
BY: ALEX DISHMAN
WHAT IS CARDIAC ARREST?
 The heart stops pumping
 Blood doesn't flow around the
body and oxygen doesn't reach
the brain and other organs
 Before a person has a cardiac
arrest, their heart beats
abnormally
 Sometimes they wont even know
it will happen or that it is cardiac
arrest
STATISTICS
 Approximately 7,000 children suffer from Sudden Cardiac Arrest
- often these children suffer from it while at schools or on a playing field
- School-age athletes are particularly vulnerable.
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365,000 people die from it each year
POSSIBLE WAYS TO FIX IT
 CPR
 AED
- best way
WHAT IS AN AED?
 Automated External Defibrillator
 A portable electronic device that electrically stops the heart’s arrhythmia
causing the cardiac arrest
 It causes the heart to return to its normal rhythm
HOW TO WORK AN AED
 Attach the pads where the machine shows you and press the button
 It will not shock unless the person is in cardiac arrest
 Once the shock is administered, the person might begin to breathe on
his or her own or require CPR
 The machine will tell you what to do (pretty simple)
 CPR ISNT ENOUGH TO GET THE PERSON OUT OF CARDIAC
ARREST, USUALLY AN AED IS WHAT GETS THEM OUT OF IT.
CARDIAC SCIENCE AEDS FOR SCHOOLS:
POWERHEART
 Cardiac Science = best-known makers of AED defibrillators.
- best-selling AED model =Powerheart AED G3 Plus
• Powerheart AEDs are dependable and easy-to-use
 Self-tests all main components daily to ensure anytime
functionality and the voice prompts/guides you through it while
using it
 Knows when to (and when not to) deliver the shock.
 Text screen lends extra help in noisy and chaotic environments.
 Has a 7-year warranty and a 4-year full operational battery
replacement guarantee.
 Best way to protect lives
 Gives a school's trained responders the ability to save a life
without having to wait for emergency medical responders to
arrive.
CLAIRE DUNLAP’S INCIDENT
 April 15, 2009
 Sophomore at American
Heritage
 Center Fielder
 After softball game at West
Boca Community High
School
 Perfectly fine all day and
game
 Sudden, didn’t know what
was happening or that it was
cardiac arrest
TRYING TO REVIVE CLAIRE
 Sarah Donner = athletic trainer, tried CPR, didn’t work
 Ricky Grau = firefighter there, and an AED was at the field, he used it
 Tube down her throat, put in ambulance, taken to hospital
 Induced coma but stabilized
 Defibirilator put in chest
 She was going to be ok, unknown cause and arrythimia
CLAIRE DUNLAP THE MIRACLE
 She went back to school 3 weeks later
 She was able to play softball and volleyball junior
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and senior years (with limitations)
Graduated and wonsoftball states this past May
Still has defibirlator in chest (kind of like a personal
AED. It sits in her chest above her left breast. If her
heart has an arrhythmia that would cause her to
fall into cardiac arrest, it will shock her and knock
her out, preventing it)
Advocates AED awareness
Attends UF studying Pre-Med to become Pediatric
Cardiologist
WHERE AEDS ARE REQUIRED
 Public schools require them
- Lucky that Claire’s accident happened at West Boca b/c public and her
home school (American Heritage) was private.
• Private schools don’t require them
- Since it is so common for athletes, private schools not having them could
be dangerous
- A lot have started adding them (usually see them anywhere there are
sports even if not required)
• College Campuses are pushing for them
• Sports facilities around the country have added them
• American Heritage added 3 AEDs since the accident and the athletic
trainer is required to carry one at all times
ADVOCATING AEDS
 Strong Advocacy
 Sudden cardiac arrest can strike children of any fitness level and that the
only effective treatment for it is a shock from a portable defibrilator
 If there wouldn’t have been one where Claire was she would have died
- Best way to save those who suffer from cardiac arrest
 Many states including New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania are now
mandating the placement of AEDs throughout their schools
- AED legislation is pending in many other states.
 Cheaper than having an MD or EMT on campus
IN CLOSING
 AEDs are only way to save a child in Cardiac Arrest
 Cost- effective
 Easy-to-use
 Proof they work: Claire Dunlap