Amish in Pa. community learn to use defibrillators
By DIANA MARTIN - Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
The simple, plodding horse and buggy clomping down your street might be concealing some surprisingly advanced technology.
Amish in Paradise Township, who generally shun technology, are learning how to save lives with automated external defibrillators, or AEDs.
More than 50 members of the rural community, about half of them Amish, recently participated in training to deliver a lifesaving shock in the case of sudden cardiac arrest.