Run for Someone’s Life

This guest post from Lewis Beck

When we moved to California, my husband signed up for ADT Palo Alto to keep our family feeling safe and protected. A few weeks ago, I took another step to make all parents feel safe while their kids are in school. I participated in a fun-run to raise money to place AED’s, or automatic external defibrillators, in school hallways and gymnasiums. With this machine in place, the school staff can feel confident that if a child or other staff member was to encounter a cardiac arrhythmia, this machine could be hooked up to a person’s chest to shock the heart back into rhythm. Even more amazing is that precious minutes are not wasted in waiting for emergency personnel to arrive and begin treatment on a patient. These devices are portable and easy to use. The machines go so far as to give audio directions for where to apply the electrodes. They virtually do all of the work and take all of the guess-work out of operating such a device. With these AED’s in place, the hope is that no child will be lost due to lack of proper life-saving equipment.