Case Shows Importance of Prompt AED Deployment

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Athletic Business has been examining the question of whether health and fitness clubs have a legal duty to have an automated external defibrillator (AED) on site as far back as April 2007. Over the past 14 years, some states have moved to require health facilities to have an AED on site, but not every state has been willing to impose such a duty.

In fact, as of December 2020, there were only 16 states — Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island — as well as the District of Columbia that had mandated AED placement in health clubs, though most exempt spas in hotels. Even in some of the states that require facilities to have an onsite AED, there is still some confusion as to whether the facilities have a legal duty to actually use it.

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