Heart Safe Event

Like a Heart Safe Community, a Heart Safe Event incorporates the major elements that deliver an AED to a person's side in under 3 minutes. Unlike a community that stores the AEDs in buildings, a Heart Safe Event is a dynamic affair with AED access through staff members. A Heart Safe Event could be as simple as one AED stored in a watertight box on a river raft, or a major event with multiple AEDs and radio communications among mobile staff members on golf carts.

8 Elements of a Heart Safe Event

  1. Medical Oversight by a Medical Director
    • Review and approves protocols
    • Oversees training
    • Makes continuous improvement
    • Reviews all AED uses

      • *Your local 911 service will recommend a Medical Director
  2. Program Management
    • Develop Site Plan and Response Plan
    • Monitor placement and maintenance of AEDs
    • Conduct periodic drills




  3. Training
    • Typically a 4 hour course for Adult CPR/AED
    • Some states require practice specific for your AED


    HeartStart FRx AED
  4. Selection and maintenance of AEDs
    • Lightweight
    • Ease of use
    • Water resistant
    • Professionally designed for ease of use and reliability


  5. Communications
    • How will a call for help be routed?
    • How will staff communicate?
      • Radios
      • Cell Phones
    • How will 911 be activiated?
  6. Mobility and Delivery of AED
    • How will the AED be taken where it is needed
      • Runner
      • Bicycle
      • Golf Cart

  7. Public Awareness and Participation
    • Do the event participants know that it is a Heart Safe Event?
    • Do they know how to contact an event official in the case of an emergency?
    • Are the presence of the AEDs visible to the public?
    • "Inform but don't alarm"

  8. Coordination with local EMS
    • Local EMS supports the program
    • Response plan addresses transfer of care to EMS
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