Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Program

At least 250,000 Americans die of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) before they
     reach a hospital.

SCA strikes people of all ages; all degrees of fitness. It usually strikes without
     warning.

Many of these lives can be saved if bystanders:

         1. Quickly phone 911
         2. Begin CPR
         3. Trained responders provide defibrillation within minutes.

By choosing to implement an PAD program at your workplace or residence, you have made the commitment to
     saving lives.

Most often, SCA is caused by an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF) that prevents the heart from
     pumping blood.

The treatment for VF is defibrillation.

Defibrillation is the delivery of an electric shock to the heart that stops VF and allows a normal heart rhythm to resume.

Providing defibrillation on-site with an automated external defibrillator (AED) increases survival rates for VF
     cardiac arrest.

In places where PAD programs provide immediate CPR and deliver the first shock
    within 3 minutes after collapse, reported survival rates from VF cardiac arrest are as high as 74%.

Currently only about 5% of all sudden cardiac arrest victims survive in places where no PAD programs have been
     established to provide prompt CPR and defibrillation.