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KIRKSVILLE, MO --
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The NEMO Heart Health Corporation will unveil the 24th Automated External Defibrillator in the community Wednesday.

“NEMO Heart Health is able to purchase an AED including the wall mount and the casing and the actual AED for $1600 because we buy them in large volume and we've kind of worked out a good business partnership with Cardiac Science,” said Board Secretary Lisa Archer, R.N.
    
NEMO Heart Health pays for some of the AEDs through money it raises at the annual Gents and Joules Heart Gala, which is coming up on November 5.

“Money will come into that through live auction, silent auction, just actual flat out donation. All of that money stays local, stays within the NEMO Heart Health and we're able to purchase AEDs with that money, and also pay for training and of course we're going to be replacing battery backups, batteries on the actual AEDs that are out on site,” Archer said.

AEDs are also purchased with money from donations to NEMO Heart Health.
    
In some cases, businesses and churches will foot the cost for their own AED.
    
Only five percent of those who suffer from sudden cardiac arrest live, but when an AED is used, chances of survival increase 60 percent.