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San Diego Project Heartbeat manager says program has placed more than 11,000 AEDs and credited them with saving lives
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Maureen O'Connor, PAD program manager for San Diego Project Heartbeat, said the regional program has placed over 11,000 automated external defibrillators across San Diego County and credited them with saving about 213 lives, including five children. She demonstrated basic AED-response prompts and urged public involvement.
Maureen O'Connor, PAD program manager for San Diego Project Heartbeat, said the regional public-access defibrillator program has placed more than 11,000 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) across San Diego County and credited the devices with saving roughly 213 lives, including five children.
"AED stands for automated external defibrillator," O'Connor said, describing the device as "the therapy that's needed for a cardiac arrest victim." She ran through a short…
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