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The heart also recommends refresh rising prep football star Ryan " Hove warnJ AH er fninmif Boslet suddenly went into carVU fIV Ol M till III V tV diac arrest during a workout in In addition, a scnool or comhis school gym, a pert able defibpany always should have a plan rillator was only the length of a to handle medical emergencies basketball court away in the that includes use of the defiband all staff, students athletic director's office. rillator But it was never used. 'or employees should be regularV A school staff member couM-n- t ly trained, Hazinski said. . , "If they practice, everyone is figure out how to operate it. ' Coaches called 911, then adminable to respond and that will istered CPR to the V 4, give the victim the best outdefensive tackle. The come," she said. "It has to be a ' coordinated and practiced reteen died later that day. year-olBoslet's death a year ago sponse plan it does nobody 9 1 ' points to a larger problem: Ordigood if someone donates an : ' (aanydefibrillator) to a school and nary people, even with training, cabinet." often cant use the increasingly locked in a it's ... Patients who receive CPR and popular defibrillators under the an of a defibrillator shock within pressure emergency. "It's not the box on the wall three minutes of going into carthat saves a life someone has diac arrest survive 74 percent ' be to trained to know what to of the time. Just two minutes do in an emergency and how to longer and the survival odds use it. That's what saves a life," drop to 40 percent, previous said Robin McCune of the heart studies have shown. Nationally, ' association. , those who go into sudden carChattahoochee High School diac arrest only have a 5 perhad only recently obtained its cent survival rate. defibrillator and the model it Students dying of cardiac arrest is rare about 12 to 15 of got was different from the one on which school officials had the nation's 5 million high 7 I trained. school athletes, according to the When Boslet's heart attack National Center for CatastrophJOHN BAZEMOREAssociated Press ic occurred on Feb. 20, 2003, the , Sport Injury Research. Chris Boslet poses on Aug. 31 in Alpharetta, Ga.,with photos of trained staff er couldn't find the Since Ryan's death, his high device's pads, which were his son Ryan, who collapsed and tied during a football workout school has bought three more tucked under a flap inside the in 2003. When Ryan went into cardiac arrest, a portable defibrillators and trained more box. The adhesive electrode than a third of the school's 140 defibrillator was only a basketball court away but it was never staff members. used Many ordinary people can't use the increasingly popular pads, placed on the chest, are needed to deliver the electrical "Are we more prepared probdefibrillators, because of improper training or none at all shock that can restore heart ably than any scnool in the rhythm. School officials thought country? We probably are," ' the device was not operable and fibrillators. Merely having the said principal Tim Duncan. pads that deliver the shock. Betno one else tried to use it. ter instructions on some models $2,000 devices is not enough. Although Chris Boslet, Ryan's "The device is very simple, Because defibrillators are may help more people use them, father, harbors no ill feelings tomore affordable than ever, they but the situation is not very ward the school, he still wonaccording to an article in the are quickly becoming commonders if Ryan could have been common," said Mary Fran Jury issue of the journal Prehossaved with the device. place in schools, businesses and Hazinski of the American Heart pital Emergency Care. other public places such as airAssociation. "When you find "In my opinion, it would have Another study published last removed that one element of ports. Health officials estimate yourself in the midst of an year indicated defibrillators 200,000 to 300,000 portable deemergency situation, it's easy to were used oftry slightly more , doubt we still live with," he said. fibrillators exist in the United than a third of the time by res"We just don't know if a defibriU get flustered." Over the past 20 years, defiblator used in the right amount of cuers in places where the deStates, although the exact number is not known. rillators have evolved to autovices were nearby. About four time would have saved him, and With the help of visual and I guess well never know that." workers matically detect the heart's put of five verbal instructions, sue people couldn't use them properly when rhythm and decide whether it unfamiliar with the devices used needs a shock. But people need training on mannequins, accordOn The Net them to revive heart attack victo be familiar enough with the I American Heart Associaing to the December issue of the intims at Chicago's airports devices through training and Journal of Dental Education. tion: to use them quickThat's why groups such as www.americanheart.orgpre-senter.jhtml?ideniifier30- 1 cluding the busy O'Hare Interretraining national Airport in 2002, ac1 859 the heart association and hospily enough to provide a heart at1 Federal defihrillntnr inin- tals like Children's Healthcare cording to a New England Jour- tack victim the best chance of nal pf Medicine study. of Atlanta are working to train www.foh.dhhs.govPublicWha survival, Hazinski said. Such success is not always In one report in a medical more people about the warning tWeDoAEDFOHFAQ.ASP the case. Experts say even I American Red Cross info: journal, volunteers had trouble signs of cardiac arrest, how to trained operators can fatter if administer CPR and use the deopening the device's packaging www.redcross.orgserviceshss fibrillator. coursesaedhtml they don't regularly train on de- - and failed to properly place the Daniel Yeg FAX Albert J. Manzi Monday, September 13. 2004 .344-255- ddicksonheraldextra.com Corrections The Herald corrects errors of fact appearing in its news columns. If you have a correction, please call All contents Copyright 2004, The Daily Herald. Any reproduction dther use is strictly prohibited out prior written permission. 344-256- or with- www.cougarblue.Gom J? ffiz o ,: :. non-healt- h ... f arts " h o 0 ."N o t (X V 1 alua poi DO. ,i mm chickei with any c:.: bov. 11 L. V r w xmt vie. Muf pur- - - ii I .0' |