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Hoping to more quickly help employees or visitors in the event of a cardiac arrest, Waste Management of Orange County this summer installed one automated external defibrillator (AED) at each of its sites in Santa Ana and Irvine.
As part of the installation, several employees at each site took a training course in how to operate an AED. An AED is a small, portable device that analyzes the heart’s rhythm and can deliver a defibrillation shock if it determines one is needed. Once turned on, the AED guides the user on how to operate the device by providing voice prompts to accompany the CPR already in progress.
According to AED trainer Linda Hunter, by having an AED on site, the goal is to deliver a shock within three minutes of a person going down, which will give a person a 70 percent chance of “coming back” from sudden cardiac arrest – an important consideration when it takes EMS teams in the U.S. an average of 6 to 12 minutes to arrive for an emergency call.
“We are glad to have the defibrillators at our facilities as another tool that can assist our employees or visitors in an emergency, in addition to the first aid training and CPR certification all of our Orange County managers have,” said David Ross, Senior District Manager of Waste Management of Orange County.
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