Pleasant Valley Secondary receives a life-saving donation

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” We do this thing called DATS it’s a safety rewards program through work, and we put it in an area where Jamie ( Senior Plant Manager) found it, read our DATS and he just spearheaded it, and moved it forward,” said Ron Llewellyn.

“We were suggesting all employees donate to come up with enough money to buy one, but Pinnacle bought it,” he added.

An Automatic External Defibulator is a lightweight portable device that delivers an electric shock through the chest to the heart. It is used to help a patient undergoing cardiac arrest which occurs when the heart stops beating.

According to the ACT Foundation it’s estimated that early defibrillation and CPR can increase a patient’s chance of survival by 75 per cent.

Four other high schools in the district will also have access to AED’s thanks to a $6,000 donation from the ACT Foundation.

Pleasant Valley Secondary School has been training 100 grade 10 students for the past two years on how to use the device and an estimated 500 students are trained throughout the district every year.

About 100 Grade 10 students get AED training every year at Pleasant Valley Secondary. Teacher Doug Brown says they have been offering AED training for 2 years at the school and CPR for 9 years . #armstrongbc #vernonbc pic.twitter.com/ru5dpwIqTl

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The district says AED training will be taking place for the next two weeks at all SD83 Secondary schools.