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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.

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.