A generous donation has been secured by American EHS / American CPR and other corporate sponsors to provide a grant program designed to supply Automated External Defibrillators to any private, public or government agency in an effort is to see an AED unit readily accessible in every public, corporate and government environment in the next 5 to 10 years.

A generous donation has been secured by American EHS / American CPR and other corporate sponsors to provide a grant program designed to supply Automated External Defibrillators to any private, public or government agency in an effort is to see an AED unit readily accessible in every public, corporate and government environment in the next 5 to 10 years.

About 400 workplace deaths from cardiac arrest are reported to OSHA annually. In 1999 and 2000, 815 out of 6,339 (13 percent) workplace fatalities reported to OSHA were due to sudden cardiac arrest. OSHA states “Sixty-one million Americans have cardiovascular disease, resulting in approximately 1 million deaths per year. One-third of these deaths (300,000-400,000) are due to cardiac arrest, the sudden and unexpected loss of heart function. Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are only 1 to 5 percent. Most often cardiac arrest is due to chaotic beating of the heart (ventricular fibrillation), which can be restored to a normal rhythm if treated early with electric shock (defibrillation). Treatment of witnessed ventricular fibrillation with immediate defibrillation can result in a greater than 90 percent survival rate. With each minute of delay in defibrillation, nearly 10 percent fewer survive, so that at 10 minutes, survival is dismal. In June 1999, Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway Airports installed automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to respond in 1 minute to cardiac arrest. In the first 10 months, 14 cardiac arrests occurred, and 9 of the 14 victims (64 percent) survived”.

According to the American Red Cross, prices for an AED vary by manufacturer and model, though the average price is around $3,000 for one unit. Through the AED Grant Program from American EHS/American CPR the cost for one of three different top of the line AED units has been reduced to just $1850.00, that includes accessories & shipping costs www.AEDGrant.com.

The sooner defibrillation is started, the more likely the victim will survive. The optimum time for defibrillation is 1 to 5 minutes after the onset of the cardiac arrest. The AED is a safe, effective, easily learned method of treating victims of cardiac arrest. The attainable goal of this grant program is to see an AED unit readily accessible in every public, corporate and government environment in the next 5 to 10 years. American EHS/AmericanCPR also provides affordable CPR/AED training programs onsite for all facilities nationwide.

Find AED’s and images online at www.AEDGrant.com (Online Grant Application Form Provided)

Contact: Tony Diamante
E-mail: Amer@AmericanCPR.com
Phone: (760) 944.1048