Learn how to operate a fully-automatic AED on an child along with hands only CPR; 30:2 CPR.
Learn how to operate a fully-automatic AED on an adult along with hands only CPR.
- Dr William Roberts, a sports medicine specialist at the University of Minnesota, and affiliate of American College of Sports Medicine
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine recommends that an AED should be accessible within a minute of a playing field so that a shock can be given within three minutes of an athlete’s collapse...There is a 10 percent decline in survival rate for every one-minute delay in getting shocked by an AED.
American Heart Association estimates that sudden cardiac arrest kills upwards of 300,000 people annually. Performing immediate CPR and using a defibrillator can double a victim’s chance of survival...USA Lacrosse encourages leagues and teams to have an on-site AED for all games and practices.
"If we're looking at the risk reduction of adding a chest plate, compared to the risk reduction of training everybody in hands-only CPR and having an AED available at sites, it would fall heavily on CPR and AEDs in terms of lives saved," said Roberts, American College of Sports Medicine