AEDS Offer a Kick-start to Heart -- If You Can Find One
By Ross Courtney, Yakima Herald-Republic
As customers and employees frantically worked to save Ellen Davis' life when she collapsed while Christmas shopping, several repeatedly asked for an automated external defibrillator.
Walmart didn't have one. Few stores do.
Davis, 69, was lucky. She has since fully recovered, but a defibrillator probably would have helped that day, according to Yakima deputy fire marshal Ron Melcher.
Melcher and others want Washington stores to consider keeping handy the portable heart shockers used to revive an arrested heart.
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