Helping Save Lives in British ColumbiaWelcome to the BC Public Access to Defibrillation (PAD) Program. To help save lives, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia is making Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) available in public places where there is a risk someone can suffer a cardiac arrest. Through the PAD Program, the Foundation, in partnership with BC Emergency Health Services, will donate about 450 AEDs over three years to public places like recreation centres, arenas, pools, community centres, libraries, senior centres, busy playing fields, parks and beaches. The Program will donate one or more AEDs to every municipality in British Columbia, depending on population size. The Heart and Stroke Foundation is working with local governments to identify priority locations and place AEDs. These locations are places where large numbers of people gather on a regular basis and/or emergency response times are longer than it takes to save a victim of sudden cardiac arrest. All venues will receive an orientation to their AED and learn how to respond to a sudden cardiac arrest from an emergency medical professional. The BC PAD Program is the first step in what the Foundation believes needs to be a province-wide goal to place AEDs in all public spaces.
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The BC PAD Program Registry is a free service to all venues that have received a donated Program AED. Registering your AED ensures the information needed by BC Ambulance Service 9-1-1 dispatchers during a cardiac arrest is available to them and your community members. This information could mean the difference between life and death. Venues with registered AEDs will also receive courtesy email reminders when AED pads and batteries need to be changed. All recipients of AEDs donated by the Heart and Stroke Foundation are required to register and regularly update information about their device in the Registry. For more information about how to manage your BC PAD Program AED, contact the BC PAD Program Coordinator at: BCPAD@bcehs.ca or by phone at |
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