Startling AED Facts

I recently receive and article from our AED vendor Heartsine, maker of the Samaritan Public Access Defibrillator.  The article was a collection of anecdotes about how an AED had saved someone’s life.  As I read these real life stories of near death it suggested to me that we ought to reach out to our customer base and blog followers with some of the facts.

As compelling as the stories were my purpose today is to present you with the startling facts about the need for AEDs.  Sudden cardiac arrest or SCA is a big problem world-wide but I wanted to bring the figures home so that could see how largely this risk looms in our lives daily.  At the same time we wanted to let you know just how easy it is to be prepared for this.  Check out the facts with my comments below, our easy solution follows.

According to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation

“Each year, 424,000 people in the U.S. (more than 1,000 a day) experience EMS-assessed out-of-hospital non-traumatic SCA, and nine out of 10 victims die.”

That means about 380,000 people a year die of SCA.

They go on to say “the number of people who die each year from SCA is roughly equivalent to the number who die from Alzheimer’s disease, assault with firearms, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes, HIV, house fires, motor vehicle accidents, prostate cancer and suicides combined.”

In addition to the risk of death, irreparable brain damage can occur in a 4-6 minutes of SCA

Paramedics take an average of 8-10 minutes to arrive.

So there real problem here is that gap between when SCA begins and when help arrives with a defibrillator.  If it is going to take 911 response 8-10 minutes to arrive then you had better have a pretty good plan B.

Rapid treatment of sudden cardiac arrest with a defibrillator can save lives.  I would add to this that rapid treatment with a defibrillator can save you from serious brain damage as well.

The great news and our easy solution is that AEDs are more affordable now than they have ever been.

In fact you can get a great quality AED for at our website right now for only $1,175.00 We currently feature the Heartsine Samaritan PAD 350-SYC-US-10 Public Access Defibrillator for that low price.

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