You see them everywhere: at airports, malls, work.
But the National Institutes of Health says Americans die needlessly from heart attacks because so few people know how to use the defibrillators that got so much PR when they first were installed.
This seems like a natural public service campaign for media outlets: Teach the public how to use these things and find stories of people who have been saved by them. I would start by calling cardiologists.
Related resources from the NIH:
You may have also seen this week that the
American Heart Association now says you do not have to breathe into someone's mouth to administer CPR. That is a big change.
