Originally Posted By: comms
I'm working on our company's emergency plan and have a goal of 75% employee CPR/1st Aid/AED certified. It will happen.

Talking to EMT's, etc, they say say the odds of recovering someone who needs CPR is a multiple times percentage of success higher using an AED over compressions of any configuration.

But they are spendy. I am not in the medical field so its just my two cents. YMMV


An AED is not a substitute for CPR. AED's combats arrythmia but are useless for a person who has no pulse at all.