Serving communities. Saving lives.
255,000 Americans die of cardiac arrest at home every year. The device that could save most of them costs less than a plane ticket. Guard Your Heart puts it there — before the call.
For decades, we've built AED infrastructure everywhere people spend their public lives — airports, malls, schools, offices, gyms. And it saves lives. But 73% of cardiac arrests don't happen in those places. They happen at home. On a Saturday morning. At 2am. In the backyard.
By the time EMS arrives — 7 to 10 minutes on average — survival odds have collapsed. Survival drops 10% every minute without defibrillation. The gap isn't knowledge or training. The gap is a device that isn't in the room.
Guard Your Heart closes that gap. We deploy ZOLL AEDs directly to homes — for anyone at elevated risk — funded through the organizations, employers, and communities that care for them.
Sources: AHA/CARES 2021; American Red Cross 2024; NAEMSP 2022; American Heart Association.
This isn't theoretical. These are the numbers from the research. The AED doesn't improve your odds — it multiplies them.
Survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without immediate defibrillation. EMS arrives in 7–10 minutes on average. By then, survival odds have dropped dramatically — 10% per minute of delay. CPR alone is not enough.
Survival rate when an AED is used within the first few minutes of cardiac arrest. The device talks you through every step. No training required. The only requirement is that it's present. That's the entire mission of Guard Your Heart.
Guard Your Heart works with organizations — departments, unions, employers, and community groups — to fund and deploy AEDs for the people they serve.
Firefighters, paramedics, and police officers face 2–3× the cardiac risk of the general population. Cardiac arrest is the #1 cause of firefighter line-of-duty death — and most of those events happen off duty, at home.
Construction workers, electricians, plumbers, manufacturers, utility workers. Decades of physical exertion creates 2–4× elevated cardiac risk — especially in the years surrounding retirement.
Anyone with a family history of cardiac events, a high-stress lifestyle, or simply the awareness that 73% of cardiac arrests happen at home. Every household deserves this protection.
In the 1970s, 6,500 Americans died in home fires annually. Then smoke detectors became standard. Deaths dropped over 50%. The device didn't change. Access changed. We are in the same moment — right now — for home AEDs.
Tell us about your organization and we'll follow up within one business day. No pressure, no hard sell — just a conversation about what's possible.
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