Defibrillators

The estimated cost of the program is $1.5 million but those receiving an AED will pay only a one-time $250 fee.

PULSE, an acronym for Pittsburgh United for Life-Saving Emergencies, is a joint effort of the St.

Margaret Foundation and the Colcom and Laurel foundations, with support from the Heinz Endowments and its president, Maxwell King.

In November, Mr.

King collapsed after his heart stopped while he was at a meeting at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Staff members revived him using an AED as well as cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

According to PULSE, about 400 people suffer sudden cardiac arrest yearly in Pittsburgh, and only 5 to 7 percent survive if they don't receive immediate treatment.

The foundations have already placed more than 600 AEDs with emergency services personnel and civic organizations.

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But instead of tracking your milk, eggs and chocolate pudding, these cabinets are being used to alert hospital workers when it's time to buy more $5,000 stents and other lifesaving supplies.The system also makes it quick and easy to match a device with a patient."There are tremendous benefits from the physician's standpoint and the patient safety standpoint because there is a true tracking process for devices that may be potentially recalled," Mr.

Valentine said."Prior to that, we had kind of a manual process that was done, and we had a lot of man-hours being utilized in the tracking process."For example, when a manufacturer alerts the hospital that there's been a recall on a certain type of defibrillator, a hospital worker can type in the model number of the device, and the data from the cabinets will show how many of those