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More than 465,000 deaths a year result from SCA or sudden cardiac arrest. The deployment of AED's can greatly reduce this number, but we can't do it without your help!
SCA occurs when the heart's electrical impulses suddenly misfire and the hearts' beat becomes chaotic and rapid. This means rhe heart is unable to pump blood effectively, blood flow to the brain abruptly stops, and the victim quickly loses consciousness. |
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Foundation of FirstHealth assists with funding
for school AED placement.
Walter Powers (pictured left in photo on the right) and Phillip Boles (right)
are
shown
with
Sandhills Farm Life Principal Nora McNeill in front of an automated external
defibrillator
(AED)
at the school. Powers (chief officer for operation for Moore County Schools)
and Boles (executive supervisor for maintenance) have overseen the installation
of 31 AEDs in the 22 Moore County schools.
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SCA survivors' stories (including one from
right here in our community) as well as information about national efforts
to bring AED's to our communities at large...
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