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Peoria Workplaces Prepare to Save a Life

Tanya Koonce
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Peoria Public Radio

Another workplace in the Peoria area is ready to respond in the event of a cardiac arrest. It’s part the American Heart Association’s First Aid training effort in the workplace.

 

The American Heart Association teamed up with Advanced Medical Transport to deliver two Automated External Defibrillators and CPR Training to Bob Lindsay Honda Thursday.

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AMT's Josh Bradshaw shows one of the cabinets the AEDs will live in at Bob Lindsay Honda’s stores. They'll be placed near the restrooms.

 

The machines were paid for with money raised at the American Heart Association’s Annual Ball in February. All the same, sudden cardiac arrest is still the leading killer of Americans 40 and older.

 

Jodi Lindsay says that makes the defibulators and the training priceless. “We had one of our salespeople Clark Taylor, had an incident and we didn’t know, you know, what do we do. ‘Has he stopped breathing? Do we do compressions?’ And it was an awful feeling to not be able to help in that moment! We were lucky the ambulance got here quickly, but we might not have been so lucky.”

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AMT people along with the director of the American Heart Association gathered for a quick picture with Jodi Lindsay before their CPR and AED installation and training Thursday, June 22, 2017 at Bob Lindsay Honda in Peoria.

   

Lindsay says the salesman is okay. But they want to make sure they know what to do in the future. “We have several hundred people that come in and out of our stores every single day, you know between employees and customs. As of right now if an incident happens we’re not prepared and that’s not a very good feeling. We want to be prepared and educated, if something happens we’re not going to freeze. We know what’s going on.”

 

 

Advancement Medical Transport offered the CPR training and installation of the AEDs. The ambulance company has worked to help place more than 630 devices and completed CPR Training for nearly 32,500 people over the last 15 years in Peoria and the areas the agency covers in Tazewell County.