Amish learn to use defibrillators
By DIANA MARTIN, Staff Writer
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 life-saving shock in the case of sudden cardiac arrest.
Volunteers were outfitted with 20 AEDs — dispersed across schools, barns, churches and, yes, even buggies — to cut down response time on the nation's leading cause of death.