My son bought my wife and me a gift this week. It is called an 'AED Plus Automated External Defibrillator' and is for first responders. It is designed for use by people with no medical or nursing experience and is simple to learn to use. The attached video illustrates just how easy this is. So, if I or my wife keel over, the survivor just has to hook up the machine and miraculously, it talks you through the procedure, step by step. It make all the decisions for you after it makes a cardiac analysis, which takes just a few seconds. Of course it helps to have the machine in a place where you can put your hands on it easily (not good to have to spend three minutes looking for the thing!) and it also helps if you have looked at the attached video a few times to immediately identify what's what, in the heat of the moment.
Nice to think one's kids have the old folks welfare at heart, (forgive the pun!) even if you are 80!
Maybe everyone should have one. What do you think?
https://youtu.be/s1_nKuk7frE
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Great idea. Thanks for the potentially life-saving information. The way things are going it may not be much more expensive than my epipen.
ReplyDeleteNot too bad - only lightly used!
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