At Harrah’s Chester Casino and Racetrack in Pennsylvania, staff used one of the casino’s Powerheart automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to revive a man who had collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest.
The casino industry was one fo the first to recognize the value of having AEDs on the premises, and training staff to use them.
According to the account of the AED rescue on delcotimes.com, the customer had been sitting at a slot machine in the casino Dec. 27 when he was stricken and slumped in his seat. Security guard Lamar Johnson went to the man’s aid and then radioed guard and EMT Richard Gibney. When Gibney arrived, he placed the victim on the floor, had a security dispatcher call 911, and sent Johnson for one of the casino’s Powerheart AEDs.
Gibney and another casino employee started CPR and, when the defibrillator arrived, he attached the pad’s to the customer’s chest.
The AED administered one shock, and prompted Gibney to resume CPR. Paramedics arrived just as the customer’s pulse and heart beat resumed, Gibney said.
“Every doctor has told my husband that because of the quickness and hard work (of) your security guards, my husband is alive,” the man’s wife said in an e-mail to Harrah’s officials, described in the news article.
Casinos were some of the first large businesses to install AEDs and train staff in CPR and AED use, according to this article on casino defibrillators in the New England Journal of Medicine.
For more information about AED progress in Pennsylvania, Certified AED Specialist Chip Miller is your man.
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