Death from sudden cardiac arrest is a global problem, taking the lives of more people annually than deaths caused by automobile accidents, house fires, firearms, influenza, pneumonia, breast cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer combined! Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest results in death approximately 90 percent of the time, with an overall survival rate of only about ten percent.But when bystanders witness the person’s collapse and are able to deploy an automated external defibrillator (AED) within minutes of the incident, survival…