Caring for Miami will use the automatic external defibrillator (AED), along with oxygen equipment donated by South Miami Hospital, on its mobile unit to provide healthcare access to the uninsured people of Miami-Dade County. 

Over the last four years, the Heart Center has donated nearly 530 AEDs to schools, churches and non-profit organizations throughout Miami-Dade County and the Caribbean to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest.

Sudden cardiac arrest happens when a malfunction of the heart’s electrical system causes the heart to stop beating. Automatic external defibrillators can be used to shock the heart back into rhythm and potentially save lives. Each year, more people die from sudden cardiac arrest than from breast cancer, lung cancer, stroke and AIDS combined.