03/25/2021
Santos dashed in and determined he was not breathing and had no pulse. With the help of other teachers who appeared on the scene, she began performing CPR, circulating whatever oxygen remained throughout the teenager’s lanky frame. But she knew that if Taj had any chance of making it, she would need the backpack-size device that lay upstairs in the school office: an automated external defibrillator (AED).
In November, a program to put a defibrillator in every Philadelphia public school was put to the test.