City of Rockville, Minnesota
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Advocates for Health The Rockville Lions along with the City of Rockville, the Rockville Fire Department and area lake residents from Grand, Pearl, and Pleasant Lakes invite you to join us. We are working with the non-profit “Advocates for Health” to install and place 8 AED Smart Monitored Cabinets. We need your help. We have already raised $10,000 of our $40,000 goal but we still have a long way to go. Please consider donating to this worthy cause!
AED is the abbreviation for “Automated External Defibrillator”. It is a small, portable machine that delivers an electrical shock to a person who has been stricken by sudden cardiac arrest. That happens when the electrical system in the heart goes haywire and suddenly stops the heart from pumping. Death is almost certain within 10 minutes, unless cardiopulmonary resuscitation is administered and/or a defibrillator is used. Each AED gives voice prompts about how to use it.
About 350,000 people die of cardiac arrest each year, and 80 percent of them happen at home. Only about 5 percent of them survive. However, if CPR and/or AEDs are used, the survival rate is near 75 percent. The average first responder time in most cases is over 7 minutes. Time is a major factor.
There is a basic difference between sudden cardiac arrest and heart attack. “Sudden cardiac arrest” is when the heart just stops with little or no warning due to a kind of electrical seizure. A “heart attack,” on the other hand, is caused usually by some blockage in an artery when the heart does not get enough oxygen. Many who suffer heart attacks have time to get emergency treatment. That is not true with those who suffer cardiac arrest. The AED can also be used when people are suffering “heart attacks,” as well as “sudden cardiac arrests”.
There is currently a coordinated effort to install at least 8 AED Smart Monitored Cabinets in the Rockville area. So far Advocates for Health has have helped coordinate over 55 AED Smart Monitored Cabinets in Stearns county. AED’s are now common in public places such as schools, athletic fields, law-enforcement stations, squad cars, ambulances, and hospitals. However, they are unfortunately off limits to the general public, especially after hours when they are inaccessible in locked-up buildings. That is why the concept of AED Smart Monitored began. Each unit is heated during the Minnesota winters and cooled during the hot summers. Using cell phone technology, the unit is checked on daily for battery and pad condition along with temperature. Using an existing AED that is available is an option.
Initiative Goals
Placing AED’s in outdoor Smart Monitored Cabinets will significantly increase the chance of survival by making the devices more accessible, to anyone, at any time.
Quick Facts
Implementation Phase 1: Installation will be at the following 4 locations in the city of Rockville and the lakes of Grand, Pearl and Pleasant
Phase 2: Installation at these 4 area locations
Initiative Goals
The life you save could be your own!
If you are able to help, please contact one of the following committee members: Rod Schaefer: Fire Chief – Rockville Fire Dept. Chris Hofmann: Rockville Fire Dept. Bill Becker: City of Rockville and Pleasant Lake Area Brian Herberg: City of Rockville and Rockville Lions Club Lenny Voigt: Pearl Lake Area & Rockville Lions Club Jayson Molitor: Grand Lake Area & Rockville Lions Club Daryl and Rosie Steil: Rockville Lions Club Now is a great time to give! New Charitable Rules – Incentives - Generosity during COVID-19
Make checks payable to: Advocates for Health (please put Rockville AED in memo field). Checks can be mailed to: Advocates for Health
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