Popular Mechanics - Automated External Defibrillators Are Saving Lives:
"Once used only by trained medical staff, automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, are now within easy reach of good Samaritans at airports, stadiums and even the POPULAR MECHANICS editorial offices. While some may be leery of their fellow citizens wielding an electric shock device, there is no doubt in Garofalo's mind what would have happened if his gym hadn't been equipped with one. 'I would be dead,' he says. 'I was dead--I didn't have a pulse. When I woke up two days later, doctors asked me if I saw, you know, 'the light.''"
