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Hitting the slots in Las Vegas can cause your heart to flutter at the best of times, however thanks to the implementation of a pioneering scheme, suffering cardiac arrest in the infamous casinos of Las Vegas may actually be a stroke of luck!
Automated External Defibrillators (AED) and affective AED training strategies for security staff have been introduced throughout The Strip, resulting in the restoration of 1800 heart beats in the past 9 years, and leading some to call it "The safest place in America to suffer sudden cardiac arrest".
Such efforts have raised survivial rates for sudden cardiac arrest in these casinos considerably to 53%, compared to the national average for the USA of just 10%.
The success of such strategies coupled to the fact that most deaths from sudden cardiac arrest occur prior to hospital admission, result in an increasing demand for the presence and accessibility of AEDs to the public.
The impact of such schemes is clear in U.S Cardiac medicine, and perhaps partly responsible for the American Heart Association's endorsement of the use of AED by the 'lay-person'.
This further emphasises the importance of effective training in the use for AEDs for us all, and the real impact this can make on a life.
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Sources
J P Pell (2003)- The debate on public place defibrillators: charged but shockingly ill informed