High-tech Life-saving Device Unveiled at Local High School
By Bill Silverfarb, San Mateo Daily Journal
As a registered nurse who has a long history of working in cardiology care for children, Kim Griffin knows how critical it is to respond quickly to someone who has suffered from sudden cardiac arrest.
And although children are far less likely to be afflicted with heart problems than adults, more than 8,000 children died from cardiac arrest last year in the United States, many of them athletes, Griffin said.
Yesterday, the state's first video-equipped, two-way communications capable, 24-hour-monitored automated external defibrillator unit, called Code Blue, was unveiled at Sequoia High School's Terremere Field.
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