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Emotional
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COMMUNITY COMMUNITY
Impact
As stated earlier, District AED’s have saved nine (9) lives. The person’s saved range in age from 15 – 72 years
old. On April 15, 2009, a District AED helped save Claire Dunlap’s life. At that time, Claire was a 15-year-old
sophomore varsity softball player for the American Heritage-Delray Stallions. The Stallions had just finished
5 – 4 win against West Boca Community High and were huddled together after the win. Claire collapsed in the
huddle and appeared to be having a seizure. Ms. Sarah Donner the trainer for West Boca Community High at
the time, came to Claire’s aide, assessed the situation and began to do CPR. Two paramedics were watching
Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) Program another game on a nearby field and came over to assist. One determined that she was in sudden cardiac arrest
and that the CPR was not working. He told the trainer to get an AED and she retrieved one from a nearby golf
Over the past 13 years, the District has distributed and maintained automatic external defibrillators (AED’s) cart. The paramedics put the pads on Claire and it delivered three shocks. The third shock put Claire’s heart
in each school site and most of our facilities. During that time rescuers used the AED’s to save 6 adults and back into rhythm.
3 student’s lives. Some of the adults were District employees however several were members of the general
public that were on campus for a variety of reasons.
FY19 AED Update
History Approximately 57 aging Cardiac Science G3 AEDs were replaced in the District. It is expected that all of these
AEDs will be replaced in the next two to four upcoming school years.
In 2004, the School Board approved the funding for the purchase an AED for each school site. In conjunction
with this funding, the School Board developed an AED policy that governed the use, maintenance, and FY20 AED Update
training requirements for AED use in the District.
Because of budget concerns and the extended absence of most personnel from school and support sites
Shortly thereafter the Health Services Specialist in collaboration with Risk Management reviewed the board’s due to COVID-19. Risk Management removed the AED parts ordering forms from its departmental website.
policy and initiated a program that would assist schools to become compliant with the policy. Compliance During the months of June and July 2020, Safety Techs went to schools where District records indicated that
involved working with schools to designate AED site coordinators and develop and implement training for the AEDs had expired pads and/or batteries. Upon evaluation of the AED the Safety Techs either replaced the
the AED site coordinators and emergency response teams. This was completed in school years 2006 through expired parts or the entire AED was replaced if the AED was out of warranty. During the Summer 2020 months
2008. approximately 50 old AEDs were replaced.

Annually, Risk Management reevaluates the status of the current program to reflect changes in Florida’s laws
and industry standards. As a result, they determined that the number AED’s at each location was inadequate
and did not meet the American Heart Association’s three-minute recommendation. This recommendation
states that a responder has three minutes to retrieve the AED and begin cardio-pulmonary resuscitation to
afford successful results.

Safety Technicians from Risk Management and Facility Coordinators spent the next year evaluating each of the
Districts’ 185 campuses and determined the need for hundreds of additional AED’s. Based on the evaluations
conducted during the previous year it was determined in 2006 that the District would need 600 additional
AED’s to meet current standards. The School Board approved the additional funding and the District purchased
600 Cardiac Science AED’s.

The increase of AED’s raised concerns in Risk Management to ensure that they were properly maintained.
An online program, AED Tracking Program (Database), developed by the District’s IT Department provides a
system for tracking AED locations at each school as well as the status of its equipment. This has become an
invaluable resource as both AED manufacturers have had several software updates during the past few years.
The AED Tracking Program made it easy for District and manufactures representatives to ensure that all AED’s
were maintained in a state of readiness.

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