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Please help the Lakeview High School Sports Medicine class raise funds to purchase 3 AEDs. One will be used for the LHS football field, one will be used for the woodshop building, and one portable one for the buses. We need AEDs so that if something happens it won’t be too far to get an AED.

Research shows that survival rate greatly increases if an AED is used within one minute. Currently the placement of the AEDs at Lakeview High School football field and woodshop building is more than a minute away. The closest one to the football field is in the senior hall by the gym. The buses and woodshop do have have AEDs

We would like to have these preventive devices in place in case of emergency to increase the survival rate of athletes, students and others that interact with our facilities, such as Pop Warner, which has had over 1500 attendance in one day. The football field is used often for games and practices.

Key Facts from National Athletic Trainer Association’s (NATA) Heart Health and Youth Safety Recommendations:

Cardiomyopathy is a chronic disease of heart muscle affecting more than 30,000 in the U.S. It is a leading cause of sudden cardiac arrests among the young.
As many as 80 percent of these patients are asymptomatic until sudden cardiac arrest occurs.
Just one in 10 U.S. student athletics who suffers a cardiac arrest survives.
The greatest factor affecting survival after a sudden cardiac arrest is the time from arrest to defibrillation.
Survival rates have been reported at 41-74 percent if bystander CPR is provided and defibrillation occurs within three minutes.

NATA recommends that an AED should be on-site and available for all organized sports activities, noting that it is ideal to have it readily available within one minute.

Please consider donating to help the LHS Sports Medicine Program obtain two AEDs and possibly save someone’s life.

It is shocking to find out the football field does not have an AED- Jen and Tommy Gallagher

Thank you