Elementary school teacher Wendy Swain had taken her students out for a recess break when one suddenly fell to the ground.
Tag: defibrillators
Pacemakers, defibrillators are potentially hackable
The increasing popularity of devices using software and wireless communications has created a rising risk that hackers might reprogram devices to make them work improperly, cardiologists say.
Defibrillators coming to all OCDSB schools
Senior staff with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board decided Tuesday to have defibrillators installed by September 2018 in all of the board’s schools, a week after a CBC story revealed 78 of the board’s 119 elementary schools did not have the potentially life-saving devices. CBC | Health News
Paramedic calls for more defibrillators after 2 hockey players’ lives saved
Pete Wightman and his middle-aged buddies used to joke about the defibrillator at Carleton University’s Ice House, where they play hockey every week — but not anymore. CBC | Health News
