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Aug
Everyday alarms and the hard numbers that wake me up I still remember unboxing a portable aed for a small-town school gym—nervous coach, curious kids, and a manual nobody read—then watching that kit sit unused for weeks while training lagged. That aed defibrillator sat beside the wrestling mat for months until I insisted on a maintenance plan. When a volunteer at a charity run in 2018 collapsed after 10 minutes of irregular pulse—survival in similar field arrests dropped roughly 70%—what actionable change would have shortened that interval? (This is not gloom; it's the kind of data that makes suppliers and…