News / Placement

A North Carolina parks department just put AEDs in two county parks. Outdoor placement raises four questions a lobby cabinet never asks, and getting any one of them wrong produces a device that is present but unavailable.

Teenage lifeguards at a Virginia club used an AED twice on a 14-year-old who fully recovered. A second pool rescue in Florida the following day. Both turn on the same question, asked out loud mid-emergency: where is the AED?