Edmonton (Canada) schools equipped to restart hearts

"Assistant principal Mitch Zarowny stops briefly outside a cabinet hanging in the hallway to watch for a flashing light on J. Percy Page High School's defibrillator. That daily battery check has been part of his routine for weeks, ever since J. Percy Page and all of Edmonton's high schools were equipped with the portable, lunch box-sized, life-saving devices that deliver electric shocks to restart stopped hearts. 'It's reassuring to know that if we did need it, we'd have it available," J. Percy Page principal Audrey Gibson said. "You never know in a school when an emergency is going to happen. Defibrillators arrived in all Edmonton high schools this year through a grant from the Canadian Legion of Frontiersmen" - Edmonton Journal