I know a lot of you are thinking “AED? Oh great, yet another acronym in the gym that I have no idea what it means.” This one is an important one, not so much that you remember the name, but that you know it’s in the gym! AED stands for Automatic External Defibrillator and it has saved lives in gyms all over the world. In the next week or so we will be getting our very own AED at CFC and shortly after it’s arrival we will be holding a training on how to us it. (Offered by the Red Cross Czech Republic) We want as many people as possible to attend the training, the more of you that know how to use the machine the better! For those of you who are completely unfamiliar with the device I’ll give you a quick history. The AED is an emergency life saving device that when available is a useful addition to the CPR process. Studies show that persons who had some kind of heart-related event had much higher survival chances when an AED was used alongside traditional CPR techniques. The technology for the defibrillator has been around since the 1970’s … Read More