New Disaster Management Wiki

Just become you can never have enough Web 2.0 tools, I've created a Disaster Management wiki at Wikispaces.

Breathe, Dummy!

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Heart Attacks and AEDs

An Automated External Defibrillators (or AED) is a tool that can help treat heart attacks.

Here's OSHA's conclusion on AEDs in a Technical Information Bulletin.

The sooner defibrillation is started, the more likely the victim will survive. The optimum time for defibrillation is 3 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.

Amazon even sells AEDs. Many public places have purchased them including airports, malls, and schools. They're getting so affordable that individuals can reasonably purchase them.

Hopefully you'd never need it, but better to have an AED and not need it, than to need an AED....