Each shift will now have a deputy with an AED.
Photo by the Franklin County Sheriff's Department.
(Franklin County, Ind.) – A generous grant has helped purchase AEDs for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department.
Several new AED devices were recently issued to sheriff’s deputies in an effort to better serve the Franklin County community.
The devices were obtained from the Franklin County Health Department as a result of grant funding.
Each shift will now have a deputy who has been issued an AED.
According to the CDC, more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur each year in the United States. An estimated 70 to 90 percent of these people die before reaching the hospital. However, the American Heart Association reports that nine out of 10 cardiac arrest victims will live if they receive a shock from an AED in the first minute after an incident.
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