January 28, 2016
Board of
Commissioners
Henry County One of the First in the U.S. to Adopt New CPR Technology
Regular Meetings February 2 at 9:00 AM (Canceled) February 16 at 6:30 PM Meetings held at: Administration Building Community Room 140 Henry Parkway McDonough, GA 30253 Regular Commission meetings air daily on Henry TV Channel 180 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99, at 9 a.m. & 7 p.m. Two Henry County Paramedics and one Zoll representative demonstrate how to use the new Zoll Rescue CPR technology at the Jan. 26 press conference held by the Henry County Fire Department.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest claims an average of 325,000 lives a year and if you are lucky enough to survive, you only have a 10 percent chance of living for another year. Paramedics at the Henry County Fire Department (H.C.F.D.) are now equipped to increase the percentage of survival from 10 percent to 49 percent with the groundbreaking technology of the new Zoll Rescue CPR system. “It is very exciting for Henry County that we now have this technology available,� said Dr. Charles Evans, Medical Director for Henry County Emergency Medical Services. The CPR system is comprised of two medical devices; a rescue pump and a rescue pod that provides intrathoriacic pressure regulation (IPR), that when used together during CPR administration creates an enhanced vacuum in the chest that Continued on page 2
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