Defibrillators make SUNY Brockport campus safer

SUNY Brockport is now a safer place thanks to 11 new automated external defibrillators (AEDs) deployed throughout the campus. The devices bring the total number of AED's at the college to 16. An AED is a portable device that delivers an electric shock to the heart of someone experiencing cardiac arrest.

The new high-tech tools have been posted in the Tuttle North and Tuttle South Gymnasiums, Hazen Hall, Hartwell Hall, the Faculty Office Building, Drake Library, Seymour College Union, Cooper Hall, Harrison Dining Hall, Brockway Dining Hall, the Rochester Educational Opportunity Center on Andrews Street in Rochester and at the downtown MetroCenter on St. Paul Street. In addition, the SUNY Brockport University Police Department is equipped with a mobile AED unit.

More importantly, between four and 10 staff members at each location are trained and certified in both CPR and AED use. Funding for the defibrillators, which cost $2,000 each, was provided by the SUNY Brockport President's Cabinet, Brockport Auxiliary Services (BASC), CSEA, Educational Opportunity Center, Office of Environmental Health and Safety and the MetroCenter.

David Turkow, SUNY Brockport's environmental health and safety officer, is the designated Public Access Defibrillator Program Coordinator and Manmadharao Kasaraneni, MD, director of SUNY Brockport's Student Health Center, is the Emergency Health Care Provider overseeing the AED program.