Events for AED & CPR Awareness Week 2023

June 1, 2023

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June 1-7 is CPR & AED Awareness Week. This is a great time to raise awareness and showcase the importance of both CPR and AEDs. When CPR is provided, and an AED is used quickly in a sudden cardiac arrest emergency, survival rates can be much higher. The more people that are comfortable performing CPR and using an AED, the more lives that can be saved!

Our mission at Defibtech is to increase the survival rate for sudden cardiac arrest. We partner with nonprofit organizations throughout the country that are working in their communities towards that same mission. Our nonprofit partners donate AEDs, provide CPR and AED training, host cardiac screening events, and just work to raise the general awareness of sudden cardiac arrest.

We are proud to showcase the amazing work they are doing to celebrate CPR & AED Awareness Week! Here are just a few examples of the amazing work being done!

Advocates for Health

During AED/CPR awareness week Advocates For Health will continue to install their Outdoor AED Smart Monitored Cabinets, making their total number of Outdoor AEDs placed over 200. With all of the installations, they provide CPR & AED CPR/AED training. A certified CPR instructor will train small and large groups of people in CPR and the use of an AED all throughout the week of June 1-7. They also plan to continue to post on social media (see links below) about the importance of AEDs and making them accessible 24/7.

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In A Heartbeat

In A Heartbeat will launch a social media campaign (see links below), sharing important information and statistics about sudden cardiac arrest, and AEDS. Additionally, they will travel to Ireland to donate 8 AEDs, cabinets, cases, rescue kits, and do CPR-AED demonstrations. The AEDs will be donated and placed throughout Dingle, a very rural community where response time is longer than the national average.

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Simon’s Heart

Simon’s Heart is hitting the road with their CPR Jukebox which helps train people how to perform CPR in a fun environment to the beat of some awesome music that are all 100-120 beats per minute (the same rate of chest compressions).

On June 2, they will be joining a crew of CPR and AED advocates heading down to Washington D.C. and will be out and about all day promoting the importance of CPR.

On June 5, they will be at an insurance conference in California, again providing demonstrations and sharing important lifesaving information.

To learn more about Simon’s Heart you can click a link below!

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The Beat Goes On

The Beat Goes On is celebrating CPR & AED Awareness week by making two AED donations on June 1. This nonprofit, started by Jamie Ensor, a sudden cardiac arrest survivor, is working hard to place more AEDs and ensure everyone knows how to help save a life!

To learn more about The Beat Goes On, you can click a link below!

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Greg Holthaus Memorial Fund

The Greg Holthaus Memorial Fund is hosting multiple CPR-AED training classes to celebrate CPR & AED Awareness Week. On Sunday June 4, they are hosting a youth CPR class in Highland, IL and on Monday, June 5, they are hosting a CPR class at Holly’s House of Hope for uniquely abled adults.

To learn more about the Greg Holthaus Memorial Fund, you can click a link below!

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To learn more about Defibtech and to join us on our quest to save lives from sudden cardiac arrest, visit www.Defibtech.com.