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EPISODE · Jan 24, 2026 · 4 MIN

Best of: Learn To Use An AED—Save Lives

from Dr. Howard Smith Reports · host Howard G. Smith MD, AM

From Jan 2024Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DT6AdpPjloq/When most people encounter someone half conscious on the street, fewer than 1 in 5 Americans know how to use the automated external defibrillators placed in strategic public locations. It’s a shame since half of those suffering a cardiac arrest outside a hospital will be brought back to life with a timely shock. That’s the tragedy documented by University of Texas Southwestern cardiologists who reviewed some 10,000 patients with cardiac standstill. These AED devices are lifesaving if you know how to use them and have the guts to pull them off the wall and deploy them.  To give you the confidence to save lives of friends, neighbors, strangers, and, maybe your family, I want you to watch this excellent video by the Washington Post featuring Dr. Landon Mueller of MedStar Health. (Video) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2813619 #AED #automatedexternaldefibrillator #cardiacarrest 

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