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By Drew Lawson
The Record-Times 

AED's spread around county

Highline Grain acquires units through grant

 

Last updated 3/30/2023 at 8:57am

Drew Lawson | The Record-Times

AEDs-Fire District No. 4 chief Jim Adams and firefighter Doug Bonstrom show Tim Hanni and Michele Zunker how to operate an automated external defibrillator at the SpeedTrap Tap House Tuesday, March 29. The AED's have been delivered to five locations in Lincoln County.

REARDAN - The risk of cardiac arrest is a scary proposition, but there are now more tools to address an episode in Lincoln County thanks to a series of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) acquired by Highline Grain Growers through a $5,000 matching grant program.

The units have been disbursed in the last two weeks by Fire District No. 4 and is a medical device aimed at analyzing a heart's rhythm and deliver an electric shock to the heart without the need of mouth-to-mouth CPR.

Highline Grain human resources manager Krissi Bell said the model is a Zol AED plus and is designed for anyo...



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