Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) should be made mandatory in all public schools under TVDSB.
- Up to 40 000 cardiac arrests occur each year in Canada. This is equivalent to one every 12 minutes.
- Many of our students have heart conditions that would require this life saving device to revive them.
- When an AED (as well as CPR) are immediately available, chances of survival may increase by 75% or more.
- If an AED is used within 2 minutes of someone going in to cardiac arrest, chances of survival are 90%.
- For every one minute that passes without the use of an AED, alongside CPR, the chances of survival decrease by 7 to 10%.
- All Catholic Schools have AEDs, as well as many other school boards. (Why not us?)
This is a subject that is very close to the hearts of several schools under TVDSB, mainly in the areas of Ingersoll, Thamesford, and Zorra, as in May of last year, we lost one of our students when his heart stopped on the field while playing soccer. Bystanders rushed on to the field and started CPR, but there was no AED on sight, and consequently, he was not able to be revived.
Since then, Andrew Stoddart’s family and friends have made it our mission to spread awareness for Defibrillators. On top of this we have started a campaign, collecting money to place AEDs in the public. So far we have donated 6 of these important devices, and have several more to come.
It is confusing that all of our high schools have one on sight; yet most of our public grade schools do not. In December we placed one at Zorra Public School in Embro, and are hoping to donate many more in the future.
However, we cannot do this alone. We need your help to make these essential life saving devices mandatory in our schools, to have them available to more of our communities. Cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, young or old. It could just as easily happen to someone close to you, as it did to 15 year old Andrew.
It is time that we do more to ensure the safety of the kids, as well as staff, in our schools. I urge you to make a change in our policies, so that we can prevent others in our community from having to face a tragedy similar to this.
Updates
January 20, 2016
I am currently organizing all our signatures to hand-deliver printouts to the board office. Please send an email to your local trustee right now to demand they add this to the next meeting agenda.
January 20, 2016
The momentum behind this campaign is picking up and the board is finally starting to take notice. Post this link on your Facebook feed right now so we keep the pressure on. Email your local school board representative today and tell them our students deserve these lifesaving devices.
Reached 100 supporters
January 20, 2016
54 Comments
As a mother to a child who has had a heart transplant, I feel that having AED's in our schools is of the utmost importance. The heart disease that my daughter was born with and that runs in my family, is often the one our young athletes are discovered to have when they suffer cardiac arrest on the playing field. Don't let our children die because we don't have a simple machine onsite at our schools.
I have lived through an evening when a young life could not be saved on a sports field at a TVDSB school because there was no AED on site. I wouldn't want anyone else to live through that. Get them everywhere!
The purchasing power of the TVDSB plus the facilities available to teach the public how to use them could be the highest impact any community in Ontario could make to save a life
AED's should be a must at all locations where sports take place. Anywhere you get your heartbeat up through physical activity at a sporting facility, field, or location should require one. I stand by this.
I have 2 children in TVDSB, one who was very close friends with Andrew Stoddart. I would hope if that if one of my children were unwell that the life saving support would be available to them.
yes they should be mandatory because we can save more live and stop people from passing away at a really young age. Those people still have a long and big life still ahead to come!
Yes for sure good idea
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Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) should be made mandatory in all public schools under TVDSB.
- Up to 40 000 cardiac arrests occur each year in Canada. This is equivalent to one every 12 minutes.
- Many of our students have heart conditions that would require this life saving device to revive them.
- When an AED (as well as CPR) are immediately available, chances of survival may increase by 75% or more.
- If an AED is used within 2 minutes of someone going in to cardiac arrest, chances of survival are 90%.
- For every one minute that passes without the use of an AED, alongside CPR, the chances of survival decrease by 7 to 10%.
- All Catholic Schools have AEDs, as well as many other school boards. (Why not us?)
This is a subject that is very close to the hearts of several schools under TVDSB, mainly in the areas of Ingersoll, Thamesford, and Zorra, as in May of last year, we lost one of our students when his heart stopped on the field while playing soccer. Bystanders rushed on to the field and started CPR, but there was no AED on sight, and consequently, he was not able to be revived.
Since then, Andrew Stoddart’s family and friends have made it our mission to spread awareness for Defibrillators. On top of this we have started a campaign, collecting money to place AEDs in the public. So far we have donated 6 of these important devices, and have several more to come.
It is confusing that all of our high schools have one on sight; yet most of our public grade schools do not. In December we placed one at Zorra Public School in Embro, and are hoping to donate many more in the future.
However, we cannot do this alone. We need your help to make these essential life saving devices mandatory in our schools, to have them available to more of our communities. Cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, young or old. It could just as easily happen to someone close to you, as it did to 15 year old Andrew.
It is time that we do more to ensure the safety of the kids, as well as staff, in our schools. I urge you to make a change in our policies, so that we can prevent others in our community from having to face a tragedy similar to this.
Updates
January 20, 2016
I am currently organizing all our signatures to hand-deliver printouts to the board office. Please send an email to your local trustee right now to demand they add this to the next meeting agenda.
January 20, 2016
The momentum behind this campaign is picking up and the board is finally starting to take notice. Post this link on your Facebook feed right now so we keep the pressure on. Email your local school board representative today and tell them our students deserve these lifesaving devices.
Reached 100 supporters
January 20, 2016
54 Comments
A family from a neighbouring community lost their child in our community. Please let this be a wake up call that we need AED's availible incase of an emergency. I wish we had one in place before Andrews emergency. Please let every school have one before a tragic event
As a mother to a child who has had a heart transplant, I feel that having AED's in our schools is of the utmost importance. The heart disease that my daughter was born with and that runs in my family, is often the one our young athletes are discovered to have when they suffer cardiac arrest on the playing field. Don't let our children die because we don't have a simple machine onsite at our schools.
I have lived through an evening when a young life could not be saved on a sports field at a TVDSB school because there was no AED on site. I wouldn't want anyone else to live through that. Get them everywhere!
The purchasing power of the TVDSB plus the facilities available to teach the public how to use them could be the highest impact any community in Ontario could make to save a life
AED's should be a must at all locations where sports take place. Anywhere you get your heartbeat up through physical activity at a sporting facility, field, or location should require one. I stand by this.
I have 2 children in TVDSB, one who was very close friends with Andrew Stoddart. I would hope if that if one of my children were unwell that the life saving support would be available to them.
yes they should be mandatory because we can save more live and stop people from passing away at a really young age. Those people still have a long and big life still ahead to come!
Yes for sure good idea
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A family from a neighbouring community lost their child in our community. Please let this be a wake up call that we need AED's availible incase of an emergency. I wish we had one in place before Andrews emergency. Please let every school have one before a tragic event