School District 83 phasing in AED’s

It’s a device that could mean life and death to a person in cardiac arrest and now schools in School District 83 will be equipped with them .

The school district says that they will be phasing in AED’s or Automatic External Defibrillators in all schools over the next three years .

The district currently supports only a few prescribed paediactric AED’s for specific students .

The lifesaving qualities of AED’s in schools was recently put in the spotlight after a teen in Oliver B.C  went into cardiac arrest but was saved after teachers used CPR and an AED.