55+ Community
Earlier this year, I got a call from a gentleman who was asking to buy replenishment items for an AED. He was a volunteer / resident of a very large 55+ residential community. He wasn’t specific, so I asked questions to try and determine what he was looking for. It took a bit, but he was able to tell me the make and model that he had, but then proceeded to tell me that there were other units and he really didn’t know all that was needed. He didn’t seem very confident about what he was asking or trying to accomplish, so I requested a meeting with him where I could see what he was talking about. When I arrived, he shared that a noise prompted the whole situation. A noise? Yes, a noise. There was a strange beeping/alarm type noise in the office. After some searching, they found an AED buried in the back of a cabinet under things in the office. The noise was the AED trying to tell them that it needed a new battery and electrode pads. Well, that prompted some research! They discovered that the community had 5 additional AEDs. All were in dire need of new batteries and new electrode pads. Fortunately, the prep kits with the AED on the pickleball court had one of my stickers. That’s how he was able to contact me. We proceeded to update them and got them all back in service with fresh prep kits. However, the next step is training. It is awesome that they have the AEDs. It is fantastic that they made sure that they were in working order. But they are USELESS if no one knows how to use them.
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