Master Medical Equipment assisted ‘Friends of Heart’ and purchased eight Zoll AEDs which were donated to the Madison County Sheriff’s Department.
They will be used for their Crisis Intervention Response Teams, and will be placed in their cruisers.
Based in Jackson, Master Medical Equipment is a supplier of professional medical equipment for hospitals, clinics, EMTs, veterinary and educational facilities throughout the United States – and beyond.
AEDs are viewed as a very important part of the total response to sudden cardiac arrest in the community.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in the United States and it claims approximately 365,000 lives in North America each year.
Most commonly, this sudden cardiac arrest, or stoppage of the heart, occurs because of an electrical event.
Automatic External Defibrillators in the community allow bystanders to deliver a shock to a patient’s heart quickly while others proceed to contact and/or direct medical professionals to the scene.
Survival is directly linked to the time interval between the SCA and the first AED shock delivered to the victim. Statistics validate that when a shock is delivered within one minute, survival rates can increase 17 fold from five percent (by relying on EMS only to respond) to levels as high as 86 percent in some cases.
(PHOTO: Courtesy Jill Taylor, Master Medical Equipment)
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