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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.

AED Professionals is at Booth 223 at EMS World Expo 2026 in Orlando, September 30 to October 2. See the Evac+Chair Pro EMS Stair Chair, the EOlife ventilation feedback device and the Ambu SureSight Mobile video laryngoscope, plus EMS bags, airway and rescue gear.

You don't have to pay full price for an AED. This 2026 guide maps the real funding avenues—foundation and corporate grants, federal and state programs, local civic groups, fundraising, and supplier discounts—and shows you how to write a request that gets approved.

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.

Stryker's field action covers roughly 12,000 HeartSine samaritan PAD 350P, 360P and 450P units. Stryker is asking owners to keep affected devices in service until a replacement is in place. Here is how to check your serial numbers, what to do with the answer, and why your inventory is the real finding.

When a car crashed into a utility pole near West Point, Cadet Larry Pickett Jr. and his father ran toward the danger. Their quick actions helped save a man's life.

Staff Sgt. Justin Kitts and his military working dog Dyngo were pinned down in an ambush in Afghanistan with buried explosives on both sides of the only road out. This is the story of the partnership that found them.