In which area is the coffee machine at your workplace? Where is the cafeteria? The bathrooms? Could you answer all the three above questions? Good. Now answer this one last question for me: where is the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) located? If your answer was 'I don't know', let me try to make it easier for you - have you seen an AED at the airport in your city? At the mall you regularly frequent? The school your child attends?
Do you know what an AED is and what does it looks like? Yes, I realize, you are not a medical practitioner and so feel it is unfair of me to ask this. But you see, an AED is not a device made for Intensive Care Unit doctors like me... it is specially designed for regular people of society like you. It is for you... and you need to know not just where it is located and what it looks like but also how easy it is to use. What is an AED? You may have seen…
