www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt wants to cut the heart attack death toll in Laval and has set a goal of being the best-equipped metropolis in Quebec to respond to a cardiac arrest. <\/p>\n
He has mobilized the city to help buildings with 50 or more residents, by subsidizing them to purchase automated external defibrillators, he announced at a news conference Sept. 11. <\/p>\n
The computerized defibrillators are so simple to use that a child can be taught to operate one, and are equipped with sensors that prevent them from accidentally discharging on a healthy person whose heart is beating. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe objective is clear,\u201d Vaillancourt said. \u201cReducing heart attack deaths in Laval by adding another tool to the survival chain.\u201d <\/p>\n
The survival rate of defibrillators is two-and-a-half times as high as cardiopulmonary resuscitation alone\u2014and every minute counts after the heart stops beating. <\/p>\n
Seattle, North America\u2019s best-equipped city to deal with cardiac arrest, has equipped every telephone booth in the city with defibrillators. <\/p>\n
This is not Laval\u2019s first such initiative. Last year, the city equipped 20 public safety vehicles with defibrillators\u2014some of which have already been pressed into action to save lives. <\/p>\n
Sossie Der Estrepanian, for example, gave a brief account of how two police officers\u2014Audrey Langlois-Bri\u00e8re and S\u00e9bastien Marceau\u2014used a defibrillator to save the life of her father. \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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