Health clubs sued after members suffer heart attacks. (Government Watch).
Health clubs in Boston and Sugar Land, TX, were sued by individuals
who claimed that they or a member of their family had suffered after
having heart attacks at facilities that were not equipped with automatic
external defibrillators automatic external defibrillator Smart defibrillator Cardiology A device designed to monitor the heart's electric activity and, if ventricular fibrillation is identified, deliver an electric shock. See Defibrillator, Ventricular fibrillation. (AEDs). In the first case, a man alleged that he
was unconscious unconscious, in psychology, that aspect of mental life that is separate from immediate consciousness and is not subject to recall at will. Sigmund Freud regarded the unconscious as a submerged but vast portion of the mind. for about nine minutes until paramedics arrived,
increasing the risk of brain damage. In the second case, the widow of a
man who died of a heart attack after working out at his club complained
that it lacked basic safety equipment and staff trained in lifesaving
measures. She further claimed that it failed to summon TO SUMMON, practice. The act by which a defendant is notified by a competent officer, that an action has been instituted against him, and that he is required to answer to it at a time and place named. emergency
personnel, instead calling the woman to take her husband home (he died
en route to the hospital). For additional information on AEDs, as well
as a list of AED AED - Automated Engineering Design legislation by state please visit
www.cmaa.org/legislat/aed.htm.
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