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children in emergency recognition and response, and for training
the general public in CPR. By 1993, petitioner had received
local, statewide, and national acclaim and letters of support for
her efforts to improve public awareness of the need to learn and
perform CPR at the earliest possible indication of a heart
attack. Prominent members of the medical and political
communities supported her efforts to expand her public sector
training concepts.
Petitioner’s Business Venture--Save-a-Life Systems
As petitioner was implementing emergency medical response
training programs within public entities, she formulated the idea
that private sector emergency response systems were needed to
coordinate with the public systems in order to insure that
cardiac emergencies which occurred in private facilities received
the proper recognition and the proper medical response until the
public emergency response system arrived on the scene. As a
result, petitioner decided that there was a need to teach people
in public and private facilities how to recognize an emergency in
progress, where to find emergency equipment placed within the
building, how to place a call to the public emergency response
system using “911", and how to administer CPR and/or use a
defibrillator until the arrival of the public emergency response
team.
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