News / AED Program Management

A study presented in Paris on September 25, 2026 modeled 28,349 real cardiac arrests and found that only about 30 percent happened within 500 meters of a registered fixed AED. The drones got the headlines. The distance problem is the part that applies to your building today, and you can measure it with a phone timer in ten minutes.

October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month. Two things worth doing this month cost nothing: attend one of the 84-plus free Ready to Respond training events the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation has scheduled nationwide, and put your own AEDs on the public map. Here is what each involves and what Lexington, Kentucky learned doing the second one.

The revised workplace first aid standard, released September 17, 2026, adds guidance on CPR and AED preparedness, on staffing levels for trained responders, and on product-specific awareness training. Here is what changed, how to turn it into a site readiness checklist, and how to build the Q4 budget case.

A dispatcher cannot send a caller to a device nobody registered. Registration takes a few minutes, costs nothing, and is the step almost everyone skips. Here is what you need before you register, how to keep the listing accurate, and the access problem that catches schools, churches and gyms.

The FDA posted a Class II recall covering three HeartSine samaritan PAD models on September 5, 2026. The manufacturer's instruction is to keep affected units in service and verify serial numbers. Here is how to run that check across every site you own.