The Shocking Truth About AEDs

Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are the only way to save a person's life who is in sudden cardiac arrest, yet there is no national standard to make AEDs widespread and accessible everywhere youth congregate, including our schools. The chance for sudden cardiac arrest survival decreases by 10% with each minute's delay. The vision of Parent Heart Watch is to eliminate preventable deaths and disabilities from sudden cardiac arrest in youth by 2030. Take the Prevention Promise and learn what you can do to champion AEDs in our schools and youth centers.

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"38% of victims shocked with an AED survived hospital discharge whereas those who received CPR only survived 9% of the time." " AED will not restart a heart once it has completely stopped because that's not what it's designed to do. As discussed above, the purpose of a defib is to detect irregular heart rhythms and shock them back to normal rhythms, not to shock a heart back to life once it has flatlined."