Longview Hills @ Newport Oregon

Reporting on Our Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)


The LVH clubhouse now has an AED on premises at the clubhouse. Most active CERT members are certified by the Red Cross in its use in combination with CPR. There are those of you in the community who are certified as well.. For those that have not seen it yet we have a video dvd that shows the many innovations that this unit has over the units you were probably trained on. We will be posting a sign up sheet asking for time and dates that you can come to the clubhouse and see the video and be familiarized with the unit.

For the community.. you cannot view the unit yet as it's wall mounting has not arrived. Soon it will be prominately located in the clubhouse in a highly visible location. The mounting box has an alarm that sounds if the door is opened... however, it will not be locked up as it must be available for quick use. We want each and every one of you to view this life saving tool as a valuable treasure that needs to be looked after and watched by our people. It is not a toy and can be dangerous in untrained hands. We ask that you respect it and ask your guests not to bother the unit... Some day it will save somebody's life.

When the unit is located and mounted we will have CERT members to demonstrate its use for the entire community.

The unit itself talks to the responder reminding him/her of every lifesaving step they must take and in what order. It runs a clock from the minute everything starts happening. It records all that has taken place and upon command transfers the data by wifi to a computer or palm pilot that the fire dept or ambulance service have on board their units. The unit is the same as the Police, Fire, Ambulance and Hospital use. Time will not be wasted transferring their unit to our patient. Our AED has sensors in the pads that time and record the depth of chest compressions and will warn if you are not pressing hard enough. Today the Red Cross teaches 30 compressions and 2 rescue breaths. The unit counts compressions and then tells you when to apply the breathing. A metronome in the unit helps you keep up the necessary pace..

It performs self checks of 8 things before it will operate. It has easy to follow pictures on the case and LED lamps light at each picture to indicate where you are at in the process. The cover of the unit has been designed to hold the patient's head so as to keep their airway open.

That's the news... Be watching for the mounting box soon....

Today Larry Henson notified me that Brian Fiterer will insure the unit under the park insurance policy.

This project has almost reached fruition.. LVH is becoming a much safer place to live due to the dedicated CERT team members that look after our welfare and it gives me great pleasure to both serve with them and congratulate them on all the work involved in accomplishing this goal.