Russell Williams
Well-Known Member
State law requires that the County Board of Education purchase defibrillators and that is what the County Board of Education must do. However, more County Student lives might be saved if the money was spent teaching students about fire safety or not drinking and driving. I do not know of any County Students who, in the last 30 years, have had a heart attack at school and died. In the last 30 years there have been County Students who have died from fires and/or drinking, and/or automobile accidents.
Suppose, over 100 years there are 10 cases, at County schools, of heart stoppage. That would be 30 heart attacks in 300 years and, at a 3% save rate, every 300 years, on average, one County school student life would be saved.
It would take a while to convince me that purchasing defibrillations is the best way to save the most student lives.
"Few people survive a cardiac arrest, which is caused by an abnormal heart rhythm and brought on by a heart attack or heart disease, electrocution, drowning or choking. The victim loses consciousness and stops breathing. More than 300,000 Americans die of cardiac arrest each year.
In the Canadian experiment, only 41 of 1,240 patients, or 3 percent, survived. All were given cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene, hooked up to a defibrillator to try to shock their hearts back into normal rhythm and taken to the hospital."
Yours truly,
Russell Williams
Suppose, over 100 years there are 10 cases, at County schools, of heart stoppage. That would be 30 heart attacks in 300 years and, at a 3% save rate, every 300 years, on average, one County school student life would be saved.
It would take a while to convince me that purchasing defibrillations is the best way to save the most student lives.
Below is a statement from a recent medical study.
"Few people survive a cardiac arrest, which is caused by an abnormal heart rhythm and brought on by a heart attack or heart disease, electrocution, drowning or choking. The victim loses consciousness and stops breathing. More than 300,000 Americans die of cardiac arrest each year.
In the Canadian experiment, only 41 of 1,240 patients, or 3 percent, survived. All were given cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene, hooked up to a defibrillator to try to shock their hearts back into normal rhythm and taken to the hospital."
Yours truly,
Russell Williams
