[Publib] AED

[Sally Decker Smith]

It's hard for me to be objective about this.  On April 7, 1999, my very healthy, with absolutely no risk factors,  51 year old husband experienced what's called Sudden Cardiac Death.  Because a college kid working PT where he went down wasn't afraid to try the portable defibrillator they had installed 2 weeks earlier, you will see my husband with me at many library events.

By the time the paramedics got there--and they got there relatively quickly--he would have suffered irreversible brain damage, if he'd survived.  With the instructions included in the  AED 's we have at our library, I would not hesitate to try to help. 

I say a prayer of gratitude for that kid every, every day.



Sally Decker Smith
Head of Reference/Raconteur
Indian Trails Public Library District
Wheeling IL
(847) 459-4100 x 232

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