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Revised August 2, 2008
In 2002, through the State of DE Public Access to Defibrillation (PAD) program,
each high school in DE received two Medtronic model LifePak 500 AEDs.
In 2006, each high school received a new Medtronic LifePak CR
Plus Express AED for each AED the school had. Per the PAD program, each high school returned the LifePak 500s
to the State's Office of EMS. The LifePak 500s were reburbished and reassigned to other organizations.
Created especially for the first person
at the scene of a sudden cardiac arrest, the LifePak CR Plus Express
defibrillator is the entry-level automated external defibrillator (AED) from
Medtronic. Per guidance from the PAD Program coordinator, the LifePak CR Plus Express will be placed in the school in
an accessible location that should allow retrieval within 3 minutes.
In the Spring of 2007, the Office of EMS was able to provide one Medtronic
Lifepak CR Plus Express AED to all the remaining public schools, and all the Charter Schools in the State.
In the Spring of 2008, the Office of EMS was able to provide an additional 103 AEDs to non-public
schools having more than 75 students, and to slected schools that had a need for additional AEDs.
As of July 1, 2008, all Delaware schools with enrollment of greater than 75 students
now have at least one AED.
School District AED Status
(Effective August 2008)
The chart below was prepared by the Matthew Krug Foundation from
data obtained by contacting the individual schools, and provided by the Delaware Office of EMS. The data was vaild
as of the July 2008.
Delaware School AED data has been
sorted by the school district "Type" as identified by the Delaware Department of Eductation. The different types
of districts are: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Private Catholic, Diocesan Catholic, Independent, and Other Religion.
To learn the AED situation for a specific school, just click on the name of your "type" of school district to link to the school
AED data. Please note, the Private and Diocesan data has been combined under the Catholic Schools AED Data link.
Although the chart below does not show 100% of the schools
having an AED, all schools with an enrollement greater than 75 student do have an AED.
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