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Empire Shtibel Gets an AED Device

In event of a heart attack L”A every passing moment in which a patient does not receive emergency medical assistance, it significantly reduces he likelihood to survive. A machine call an Automated External Defibrillator [AED] is a device which had the ability to ‘shock’ a patient’s heart and restart it.

An initiative between the Shul Members gathered the required funds to purchase such a device and on Motzoai Shabbos they received instruction from Hatzalah Paramedics on how to use the device. This is a positive initiative and each Shul should follow suit. At this time there are a few other Shuls getting onboard, keep an eye out for signs in your Shul for instruction courses.

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14 Comments

  • lechaim

    i am waiting for my shul to have that
    what is a few dollars in exchange for life?
    hatzlacha raba ad meah viesrim

  • save life

    every shul should have it every one in shul should raise the funds its ony 1500 dollars isint that worth it to save life every minute is precious

  • ME THE EMT TEENAGER

    when will all the shuls have it???
    it is good for all shuls to have it FREE of coust if they can’t affored it.

  • wow

    It was self sponsored. (The Shul Members paid for it.)

    Hatzolah just delivered it and Hatzolah members in the shul arranged to have the lecture on how to use it.

    Well done Empire Shteible, #1 in CH

  • Lifeguard

    Anyone know the latest protocol? Is it three sets of three stalked shocks? The numbers keep changing from year to year and from region to region. Once I was teaching a class on the subject and one of the Dr’s from our neighborhood set the standard: one set of three shocks, and that’s it. This applies to pools and lifeguards but not regular public places, because of the possibility of hypothermia. If anybody has any info let me know.

  • chutzpe

    Just watch what you eat and move around a bit and you wont have chest pain and you wont need a defibrilator

  • call first

    It is important to note that AED’s are only one link in the chain of survival of the victim of hart attack. There are other steps that must come with the defibrillator as well, and the most important one to CALL for an ambulance. In order to survive, a victim must receive the shocks within a minute or so of onset, and must receive further treatment and medication by paramedics within a few minutes. The machine alone will not restart the hart. It will merely reset it so that it can catch its own rhythm for another few moments, so the most important thing that goes with the machine is a phone member to hatzalah.

  • E Davis

    The New AHA guidlines are that 2 mins of cpr should be performed followed by 1 shock (360J) followed by 2 mins of cpr

  • MEDIC 17

    to “call first” . . .

    yes, it is important that Hatzalah be called too, of course, but you’re statements about the AED is not so true.

    An AED is a very sophisticated device. it is able to detect if the patient has a certain electrical rhythem in the heart called “Ventricular Defibrilation”. If the device detects this lethal, – yet sometimes viable – rhythem, it will send a concentrated dose of electricity to the heart to stop the lethal rhythem, and HOPEFULLY restart the electrical impulses in the heart to a normal, life sustaining rhthem. now yes it’s true sometimes after the patient is shocked the rhythem changes to Asystole (FLATLINE) which is much worse, but sometimes after a “shock” the rhythem will change into a “normal” rhythem where the patient can live with, such as a Sinus Tachycardic or Sinus Brady, or maybe even V-Tach or Junctional… etc (i’m not here to give a medical lecture lol)

    basically, i’m just trying to correct you when you say that the AED will not “restart” the heart but rather “reset” it, that is wrong and incorrect. it CAN reset the rhythem just as well as a LifePak 12. of course you need Medics to give certain medications like Epi(nehprine) and Atropine, etc.

    i think i spoke too much, sorry. if you are in the medical field, i yield to you, i just thought i should clarify.