AEDs: The Time Is Now!

There is an undeniable effectiveness of AEDs for saving lives. Why don't all fitness centers keep one on site?

While using the treadmill, an Illinois YMCA member suffered a cardiac arrest, resulting in brain damage. A staff paramedic gave aid, but the client remained in cardiac arrest for eight minutes until the county paramedics arrived and applied an automated electronic defibrillator (AED). The client filed a lawsuit alleging that 1) a cardiac arrest is a predicable and reasonably foreseeable event; 2) the YMCA has a duty to equip its paramedics and fitness trainers with cardiac defibrillators; and 3) the plaintiff's injuries occurred as a direct and proximate result of the YMCA's negligent behavior in failing to have an AED on hand.

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