Powerheart AEDs to be deployed nationwide
BOTHELL, Wash., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in automated external defibrillator (AED) and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, has been awarded a contract to deploy Powerheart® AEDs at U.S. Postal Inspection Service sites across the nation. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the primary law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service.
“We are proud to have been selected to protect the men and women of the Postal Inspection Service,” said Dave Marver, Cardiac Science president and chief executive officer.
The Powerheart AED’s RescueCoach™ user-paced voice prompts and CPR metronome guide rescuers confidently through a stressful rescue situation. The Powerheart AED G3 Plus delivers a shock automatically with no button to push and no human intervention. After the shock, the Powerheart AED instructs users how to perform high-quality CPR.
About Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in North America, claiming more than 365,000 lives each year. It’s estimated that more than 95 percent of cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital. In cardiac arrest, the heart’s electrical impulses fire irregularly and the heart cannot pump blood to the rest of the body. A defibrillator is the only effective therapy for sudden cardiac arrest. It provides a life-saving shock to effectively restart the heart’s electrical impulses.
“We are proud to have been selected to protect the men and women of the Postal Inspection Service,”
It’s so nice to know that the people who are doing the actual work don’t have access to this-after all, WE aren’t under any stress at all!!
We’re not really worried about the common work floor employees. In fact, we are wanting to lose them through attrition! No defibs helps!!
What about the work floor employees. No AED for them?
Plans are afoot to reduce customer service hours at the down town Ann Arbor MI post office on Liberty Street. Instead of the early morning opening time we currently have, effective Feb. 26 they say they won’t open until 9 AM. Yet that office is at the heart of Downtown Ann Arbor business! This seriously impacts individuals and businesses. I suspect businesses will take their urgent mailings over to UPS or Fed Ex instead! Are you intentionally shutting down your revenue stream? Please reconsider.