Denver schools, businesses to get life-saving automatic external defibrillators
By Yesenia Robles
Lindsay Hayden could have died when her heart stopped two years ago, but two shocks from an automatic external defibrillator at her high school in Westminster saved her life.
Now more Denver schools and businesses will have access to the life-saving units through a partnership that plans to place 1,000 free AEDs around Denver over the next three years.
According to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association and the American Heart Association, 300,000 people in the U.S. experience cardiac arrest every year and only about 5 percent survive like Hayden did.
Usually response time is the cause for deaths.