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Public access defibrillator locations and details in Forsyth County, North Carolina: Results of a telephone survey canvas of large businesses to facilitate out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treatment.

Jerishma PatelFaraan O RahimSreekanth YellankiHanul ChoiDenise SimmonsPatrick PunKonstantin A KrychtiukChristopher B GrangerR Darrell NelsonLisa MonkPeter HarrellDaniel MarkMonique A Starks
Published in: The American journal of emergency medicine (2024)
Our survey yielded a response rate of 79.1 % and identified 411 businesses with ≥ 1 AEDs. An additional 162 AED locations were contained in AED lists from multi-building organizations and registries. In total, our canvas identified 963 AEDs at 573 unique locations. The majority of AEDs (65.1 % [627/963]) were not previously registered in the NC OEMS AED registry. Few identified AEDs (11.8 % [114/963]) were listed in the county emergency medical dispatch center registry.
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