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Snow storm, New York City, winter of 1888.

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While waiting for my wife who had ducked into a 7-11 on our walk this evening here in Japan, I noticed that the storefront advertised that it had an AED, an automated external defibrillator.



If you don't know, this is a device that can restart a heart that has stopped.

They are dead simple to use. I learned how to use one as part of a trauma first aid course I took last year at my gun club in Oregon, but they come with easy to understand diagrams, and even recorded voice instructions in some of these.

I doubt if all 7-11s in Japan have these, but it is an outstanding idea. I wonder if 7-11s, or Starbucks, or McDonalds, etc., in the US have considered providing these as a public service?
 
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While waiting for my wife who had ducked into a 7-11 on our walk this evening here in Japan, I noticed that the storefront advertised that it had an AED, an automated external defibrillator.



If you don't know, this is a device that can restart a heart that has stopped.

They are dead simple to use. I learned how to use one as part of a trauma first aid course I took last year at my gun club in Oregon, but they come with easy to understand diagrams, and even recorded voice instructions in some of these.

I doubt if all 7-11s in Japan have these, but it is an outstanding idea. I wonder if 7-11s, or Starbucks, or McDonalds, etc., in the US have considered providing these as a public service?

I was trained on them some 25+ years ago, never used one on a person. They have become a lot more user friendly over the years.
We have them at our gym.
 
If you don't know, this is a device that can restart a heart that has stopped.

Not quite right. A defibrillator stops defibrillation. If a heart is stopped, a condition known as asystole, an AED won't restart it.

From FirstAid.com.au

To put it simply, an AED will not restart a heart once it has completely stopped because that's not what it's designed to do. As discussed above, the purpose of a defib is to detect irregular heart rhythms and shock them back to normal rhythms, not to shock a heart back to life once it has flatlined.
 
Thanks for the correction, Yaworski.

I looked up when to use an AED:

You should only use an AED on a person if:

• their heart suddenly stops beating
• they are experiencing Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). Symptoms are and drastic and include:
• No breathing, or gasping noises paired with abnormal breathing
• Unresponsive
Unconscious


When To and When Not to Use an AED - Avive AED
 
Nice pic, Onomea! Near here (N. Whatcom County, WA), although you can't see Mt. Fuji, you can see Mt. Baker on a clear day :)

Yesterday was not a clear day, so Baker was out, but I did get a few pics of a flooded field en route to my gf's place in Bellingham. It was a nice surprise to roll down the window in the truck and not get frostbite, as the previous week had been in the low double and single digits.

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While waiting for my wife who had ducked into a 7-11 on our walk this evening here in Japan, I noticed that the storefront advertised that it had an AED, an automated external defibrillator.



If you don't know, this is a device that can restart a heart that has stopped.

They are dead simple to use. I learned how to use one as part of a trauma first aid course I took last year at my gun club in Oregon, but they come with easy to understand diagrams, and even recorded voice instructions in some of these.

I doubt if all 7-11s in Japan have these, but it is an outstanding idea. I wonder if 7-11s, or Starbucks, or McDonalds, etc., in the US have considered providing these as a public service?

As a former EMT there is not enough of these
They should be every where. When you turn them on
They talk you through the whole process.

That said grocery store check out would be
high on my list of locations to have one.
 

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