Denver to be Pilot for New FDA Initiative
Posted by Wayne Roberts on 11/17/2010 to
AED News
News has broken on the FDA's plan to use the City and County of Denver as a pilot for their new AED initiative announced just yesterday. The University of Colorado School of Medicine plans to work with the FDA to develop a pilot registry in Denver that will enable dispatchers to quickly identify the location of AEDs within the Denver community. The dispatchers will be able to provide callers with vital information pertaining to AED location via access to the registry and the caller's location.
FDA Launches New AED Initiative
Posted by Wayne Roberts on 11/16/2010 to
AED News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday a new program dedicated to facilitating the development of safer and more effective AEDs via improved design and manufacturing practices. Goals of the new FDA initiative include:
- Promoting the innovation of next generation AEDs in an effort to improve safety and AED effectiveness
- Enhancing the ability to identify and resolve problems with AEDs currently on the market and to address safety issues more quickly and effectively
- Designating an appropriate premarket regulatory pathway for AEDs that promotes best practices for both design and testing
Manager Saves Doctor With AED
Posted by Valarie Brehm on 11/15/2010 to
Lives Saved By AEDs
Vince Brown, Site Operations Leader at Owens Corning Science and Technology Center, doesn't think of saving the life of a fellow co-worker as an act of heroism. Instead, Brown says, he was simply responding to an emergency situation and providing the necessary actions to save the life of Dr. Robert Quinn. Either way, survivor Dr. Quinn "feels pretty lucky Vince Brown was there when I needed him."
Deputies Save Officer with AED in Courthouse
Posted by Valarie Brehm on 11/11/2010 to
Lives Saved By AEDs
Two Allegheny County Sheriff's Deputies saved a McKeesport Police Officer after falling into cardiac arrest in a local courthouse. Responding to the scene, Deputies Anthony Fratto and Scott McCarthy performed CPR on the 43-year-old sudden cardiac arrest sufferer. Another deputy brought an automated external defibrillator to Fratto and McCarthy, which revived the man's heart. The officer is currently in stable condition at UPMC Mercy.
Mother Sues School District for AED Negligence
Posted by Wayne Roberts on 11/4/2010 to
AED News
Rhonda Harrill, the mother a 13-year-old boy that died from sudden cardiac arrest during a basketball game at Eagleton Middle School, has filed a $1 million lawsuit against Blount County Schools and Maryville-Alcoa-Blount County Parks and Recreation Commission for negligence. Harrill contends that if the school's AED had been accessible at the time of the incident, her son Jameson would be alive today.