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After Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest, there's new urgency to get AEDs in schools

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Buffalo² Bills safety Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest spotlighted³ automated⁴ external defibrillators. Schools are making sure people know how to use them. (Story aired on ATC on Jan. 20, 2023.)

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When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed⁵ earlier this month, an automated external defibrillator - or AED - helped save his life. Since then, there's been a surge of interest in the devices, and trainings have become more popular, especially in schools. Blake Farmer of member station WPLN in Nashville reports.

BLAKE FARMER, BYLINE⁶: A handful of states already require public schools to have an AED. And here in Tennessee, they're also supposed to conduct a drill each year, though the rule is not enforced. Nashville's Shwab Elementary has had an AED on the wall for years, but this drill is a first.

CHERYL BOWMAN: The response team is needed in the hallway outside of the gym.

FARMER: Principal Cheryl Bowman tells everyone else over the intercom to shelter in place. If this were a real sudden cardiac arrest, they don't want young kids to see it all go down or get in the way of the paramedics. A dummy⁷ lies face down on the tile floor. A teacher sprints⁸ down the hallway and arrives within 30 seconds to start CPR compressions. Another teacher bolts up a flight of stairs from the office, toting the dictionary-sized AED, and boots it up.

COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE: Begin by removing all clothing from the patient.

FARMER: This battery-powered device can shock a heart back to life, and it tells you precisely⁹ what to do.

COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE: Place pad exactly as shown in the picture. Press firmly to patient's bare skin.

FARMER: Speed is key, and the machine won't hurt a patient. It senses if they need a shock or not.

COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE: No one should touch the patient. Shock advised.

FARMER: Teachers continue trading off with chest compressions as they wait for help to arrive, and the drill winds down after just 5 minutes.

ANGEL CARTER: Guys, good job. How do you feel?

FARMER: Nurse Angel Carter is here from Vanderbilt Children's Hospital to help conduct the school's inaugural¹⁰ drill. She helps school districts throughout the region draw up AED response plans. This team gave the first shock in time to be very effective.

CARTER: We've got 3 to 5 minutes to provide a good response. And paramedics rarely can be somewhere in 3 to 5 minutes, so it's up to us to take care of that person.

FARMER: All month, Carter says she's been fielding 20 emails a day, many from school administrators¹¹ newly interested in setting up a drill. Nationwide, roughly 1 in 70 high schools a year will have a sudden cardiac arrest, according to a Washington University study. They're usually related to athletic¹² events. But the AED used recently as millions watched an NFL game has increased awareness¹³ far more than any study, says Dr. English Flack. She's a regional medical director for Project ADAM, named for a teenager in Wisconsin who collapsed and died.

ENGLISH FLACK: The beautiful outcome of the response for Damar Hamlin is that his life was not only saved, but the awareness that it's created is going to just multiply exponentially.

FARMER: Since 1999, the nonprofit says AEDs at its partner sites, mostly schools, have saved more than 200 lives. Most states still don't require AEDs in schools. In Virginia, State Senator Jeremy McPike is renewing his proposal for a mandate¹⁴. He says students in Virginia are already supposed to learn CPR and how to use an AED.

JEREMY MCPIKE: All that is already on the books, except for the key ingredient - the most lifesaving ingredient - which is the AED.

FARMER: Even where AEDs are required, there's more to learn. At Shwab Elementary in Nashville, the drill reveals their machine probably needs to be stored on the second floor, where most students and teachers are during the day, putting an AED that much closer to the lives it may be used to save.

For NPR News, I'm Blake Farmer in Nashville.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 buffalo   

n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛

参考例句：

• Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
• The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。

3 spotlighted   

v.聚光照明( spotlight的过去式和过去分词 )；使公众注意，使突出醒目

参考例句：

• The report has spotlighted real deprivation in the inner cities. 这篇报道披露了旧城区的贫困真相。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The paintings were spotlighted from below. 这些画用下面的聚光灯来照明。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 automated   

a.自动化的

参考例句：

• The entire manufacturing process has been automated. 整个生产过程已自动化。
• Automated Highway System (AHS) is recently regarded as one subsystem of Intelligent Transport System (ITS). 近年来自动公路系统(Automated Highway System,AHS)，作为智能运输系统的子系统之一越来越受到重视。

5 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

6 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

7 dummy   

n.假的东西；(哄婴儿的)橡皮奶头

参考例句：

• The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹，只是一个假货。
• The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。

8 sprints   

n.短距离的全速奔跑( sprint的名词复数 )v.短距离疾跑( sprint的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• You can run sprints only so long before you're out of breath. 你死命地跑，只能跑那么一段时间，到了喘不上气的时候，只好停下来。 来自辞典例句
• The cheetah finds the open grasslands ideal footing for its lightning-quick sprints. 非洲猎豹把开阔的草原作为它们闪电猎食的理想处所。 来自互联网

9 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

10 inaugural   

adj.就职的；n.就职典礼

参考例句：

• We listened to the President's inaugural speech on the radio yesterday.昨天我们通过无线电听了总统的就职演说。
• Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.皮尔逊教授在新的阶梯讲堂发表了启用演说。

11 administrators   

n.管理者( administrator的名词复数 )；有管理（或行政）才能的人；（由遗嘱检验法庭指定的）遗产管理人；奉派暂管主教教区的牧师

参考例句：

• He had administrators under him but took the crucial decisions himself. 他手下有管理人员，但重要的决策仍由他自己来做。 来自辞典例句
• Administrators have their own methods of social intercourse. 办行政的人有他们的社交方式。 来自汉英文学 - 围城

12 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

13 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

14 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。