The awardees used defibrillators to give emergency medical aid to cardiac victims
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 25, 2012
~~<p>Health specialist Shannon Yona­mine was sitting in her office at ‘Iolani School on May 4 when a school employee walked over and collapsed in the doorway with symptoms of a heart attack.</p>
Health specialist Shannon Yonamine was sitting in her office at ‘Iolani School on May 4 when a school employee walked over and collapsed in the doorway with symptoms of a heart attack.
Yonamine, a registered nurse and director of health services at ‘Iolani, grabbed the automated external defibrillator, or AED, in her office and used it to revive the man. Login for more...