AED: Helping You Create a Safer Workplace

In the time it takes you to read this page, sudden cardiac arrest will have claimed another victim. In the past year, 220,000 Americans died of sudden cardiac arrest: almost one every two minutes. A quarter of these deaths could have been prevented if an automated external defibrillator (AED) had been available for immediate use at the time of the emergency.

Ordinary people can be lifesavers, thanks to AEDs and training from your American Red Cross. AEDs are easy-to-use, portable devices about the size of a laptop computer. By delivering a lifesaving electric shock to the heart, an AED can restore a heart's normal rhythm. Immediate use of an AED, in conjunction with CPR, could save up to 50,000 lives a year. The American Red Cross is bringing life-saving AED training to companies like yours.

Designed especially for business and industry, the American Red Cross offers courses that train the lay rescuer in the workplace. Courses combine CPR and first aid training with instruction in automated external defibrillation, the two skills needed to save the life of a sudden cardiac arrest victim. 

We invite you to learn more about this exciting technology and training that could save the life of someone you work with - perhaps even your own life. 

Help Keep Your Employees Safe- Ask your American Red Cross to help you facilitate the purchase of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).

For more information, call 810-257-0749.