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August 16th, 2008
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State Fair a Success
Booth at the State Fair
  We had the use of a booth at the Iowa State Fair for 3 days. We met lots of great people, and demonstrated the use of AEDs. Thanks to Medtronic for donating the use of the booth.  

Wayne County Sheriff's Office Gets AEDs
AED Presentation
  The Wayne County EMS Council was successful in getting a grant from the Iowa Dept of Public Heath EMS Bureau that paid for 50% of the cost for AEDs to be placed in all Wayne County Sheriff's Office patrol cars and in the Sheriff's Office/Jail. We trained all members of the Sheriff's Office and the AEDs have been placed in the cars and the office. In addition, Wayne County Emergency Management Director Bill Yeager has received funds to make AEDs available for the Corydon and Seymour Police. They also took part in the training and soon will be equipped with AEDs. As you may know, a law enforcement officer on routine patrol is often closer to an ambulance call than the ambulance. Added to the total already in the county, this gives us about 20 AEDs in our little county.

Butch & Susie Gibbs
 

SCA Spotlighted on 13 WHO TV
  Channel 13 WHO TV, Mercy Heart Hospital, and our Organization have joined together in a year long campaign to raise awareness of SCA and the need for AEDs. As part of that campaign Channel 13 had been running spots on SCA survivors. Several members if our organization have been featured in these spots.
 
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AED Donated to Urbandale Middle School
Ethan presents AED Mary presents plaque
Plaque
Iowa AED Access for All in conjunction with the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Society and Defibetch donated an AED to the Urbandale Middle School in honor of Ethan Middleton. Ethan, while in 7th grade, suffered a sudden cardiac arrest on Dec. 5, 2006 while playing basketball at Urbandale Middle School. The swift actions of his coach in providing CPR and of the EMS who arrived with a defibrillator saved Ethan's life. Ethan now has an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator which has saved his life three times since.

Iowa Smoking Ban has been enacted
No Smoking
The new Iowa smoking ban took effect July 1, 2008
AED Access For All encourages everyone to celebrate this by patronizing their favorite restaurant and thanking the management for complying with the new law.

Congratulations!
Recently 2 of our directors were honored with awards.
Susie Gibbs, our newest director, was recognized as the third place winner of the People Saving People award by the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation. Mary Tappe, our Chairman, was selected as 1 of 100 semi-finalists for the Energizer 2008 Keep Going Hall of Fame.
Susie Gibbs Mary Tappe

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Putting AEDs in Our Schools
AED Acccess For All has set our goal for 2008 to ensure AEDs are placed in all of Iowa's schools. We are working with the American Heart Association and other groups to get legislation passed to require all schools to have AEDs. Regardless of the legislation, we will also be working directly with schools to help them raise the funds to purchase AEDs and train their staffs. We are collecting data on which schools need AEDs, which schools already have AEDs, and ensuring that the AEDs are placed in an accessible place for anyone to use.

Donations to help us reach our goal can be made online:
 

There have been
240408
deaths from SCA this year.*
Many of these victims could have been saved by early access to an AED.
*Based on statistics from the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association.

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Who We Are: Survivors of SCA, Advocates For AEDs, Friends and Families of Survivors
 
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