NEMCC Gets AED

BOONEVILLE, Miss. — Northeast Mississippi Community College was greatly enhanced when Cartwright Ford, Incorporated, in partnership with the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation, presented the college with a Resusci Anne cardiopulmonary resuscitation/ automated external defibrillator (CPR/AED) trainer unit.

“If the right kind of treatment can be given to a victim within seconds after he or she is stricken, the chances are good that the life can be saved,” said Clint Cartwright of Cartwright Ford, Incorporated. “CPR training teaches a person how to keep the heart beating while waiting for professional help to arrive.”

There has been an increase in the number of survivors from ventricular fibrillation as result for increased CPR training across the country. The training typically takes three to five hours of intensive practice and lectures.

In accepting the CPR training unit, Northeast Mississippi Community College will use the equipment to train faculty and staff across the campus to use the life-saving equipment to help those in need.

Since the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation’s Medical Grants program began in 1975, more than 4,600 CPR training units with a value of about $3 million have been donated to organizations in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. More than two million people have been trained on CPR units donated by new-car dealers.