Emergency Medical Services

 AED - Public Access Defibrillator Program

For more information phone 619-285-6429 or send us an email.

Facilities where these Services are offered:

• Emergency Medical Services - Mission Gorge

Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Information:

AEDs are machines that can shock a heart with an irregular beat, back into a normal rhythm. AEDs are safe & easy to use after short training session.

PAD - public access to defibrillation means making AEDs accessible in public or private places where large numbers of people or people at risk of heart attack gather.

The information on these pages is provided to help you develop a PAD program, so that you can have an AED in your building.

DID YOU KNOW:

Every year about 220,000 people suffer cardiac arrest and only about 5 percent of them survive. Sudden cardiac arrest is usually the result of erratic electrical activity within the heart muscle causing the heart to quiver resulting in the failure of blood to pump through the body. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can restore some blood flow but it is essential that an electrical shock be delivered to the heart (defibrillation) in order to restore an effective heart rhythm. Death usually follows unless a normal heart rhythm is restored within a few minutes. Defibrillation is the only known treatment to restore the normal rhythm. For every minute defibrillation is delayed, the victim's chances of survival go down 7-10 percent.

** New California State Law Requirements, Effective July 1, 2010** Golf Courses and Amusement Parks will be required to fulfill AED PAD requirements (Assembly Bill 1312).

Effective July 1, 2007: AED Requirements for Health Clubs and Health Studios – see below

Below are information and resources for your PAD Program:

• PAD Program Implementation Guidelines & Checklist
• Special Guidelines for Health Clubs and Health Studios
• FAQs
• Vendors
• Training
• Oversight (future section)
• State regulations
  • CA Health & Safety Code (authorizing AED Guidelines & PAD Programs)
  • CA Health & Safety Code (Section 1797.196) (PAD Program/Facility guidelines for immunity)
  • CA Health & Safety Code 104113 (New regulations for Health Clubs and Health Studios)
  • Title 22 (Training standards for the lay person)
  • AB 2041 (Good Samaritan law)
  • Letter of Explanation of Layperson AED Regulations and AB2041
• Forms
  • Notification of New PAD Program
  • Notification of Change in PAD Program
  • Notification of AED Use

Links:

• California EMS Authority

Thank you for your interest in starting a Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) program in San Diego County. Early Defibrillation has been proven to save lives and improve the lives of people that have suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. County of San Diego EMS believes that access to early defibrillation is the key to survival and encourages training in the recognition of a cardiac emergency and use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to shock the heart into a regular rhythm.

For more information phone 619-285-6429 or send us an email.