The Cause: Keep The Beat is a cause campaign and national education program working to save more lives from usdden cardiac arrest (SCA).
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Fundraising Program: Keep the Beat school AED fundraising program offers a great solution to meet your resource challenges and ensure that your school has the best chance to save lives.
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Neighborhood Heart Watch is a nonprofit initiative to reduce death and disability from sudden cardiac arrest by fostering greater awareness of CPR and early defibrillation and by placing life-restoring automated external defibrillators, manned by trained volunteers, in every neighborhood across the United States.
 

AED's In The News
• Update: AEDs in Ohio Schools -- March '05
• Hats Off to Ohio: AEDs in Schools -- Feb '05
 • AED Available Without Prescription -- Oct. '04
• AEDs Save Time, Lives -- Aug '04
• AEDs on Airplanes -- Aug '04

What is an AED?
AEDs are simple to use and are designed for individuals with no prior experience to follow simple verbal instructions (given by the device) during the stress of an emergency situation to employ the AED safely and effectively. The FDA has recently approved their sale without the need for a prescription from a physician.
 
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