AED at Library | Compendium

A grant has enabled the Schuylkill Valley Community Library to purchase an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).  Berks-Mont News reports that “an AED is a portable device that checks a person’s heart rhythm and, in cases of sudden cardiac arrest, can send an electric shock to the heart to try to restore a normal rhythm…Rapid treatment with an AED can be lifesaving.”