NEWS – Defibrillators in schools

Global News – “Alberta mother raises defibrillator awareness in son’s memory”

Kim Ruether is making her rounds in Alberta schools and educating students on the purpose and use of defibrillators. She stresses that if you have an AED on site, you can act and help to save a life. Many people are uneducated on AED’s and, because movies and TV have spread false claims about who can get shocked, many fear them.

“No one can be harmed or hurt by an AED.”

“If you were to connect it up to me right now… you can try and connect that shock button all you want… the machine itself recognizes that I have a normal heart rhythm,” Mike Hoffman, with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, explains. “The AED itself will recognize a shockable rhythm; at that point [only] will it energize to deliver the shock.”

It is one thing for parents to be familiar with the devices for the home and workplace, but children are also capable of using and understanding defibrillators. There have been many cases where children have saved the lives of parents and grandparents using in-home defibrillators or those in public.

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Alberta mother raises defibrillator awareness in son’s memory