Certified defibrillators as opioid overdose treatment

The FY2025 report certifies a program named AED and CPR Equipment at 24,133.12 expended. It gives the primary problem as opioid overdose treatment, the purpose as first responder equipment to prevent opioid overdoses and the primary category as Treatment. It states the outcome sought as return of spontaneous circulation in cardiac arrest victims (State copy pages 9 and 10). Two orders make the figure to the cent. Purchase order 25-01270 buys nine HeartStart FRx defibrillators at 13,671.00 with carry cases at 1,080.00 and batteries at 1,476.00, shipped to the Fire Department (invoice 483527, invoice file page 8). Purchase order 25-00423, described as medical training equipment for police officers responding to overdoses, buys CPR manikins, bag valve mask trainers and four Rescue Randy rescue manikins at 7,906.12. The produced invoices show 20 packs of nasal naloxone trainers at 319.20 among them (invoice file pages 5 to 7). The City has bought FRx defibrillators from the same vendor on its own budget lines, at 1,366.00 on PS/RESCUE SERVICES-MED SUPPLIES in 2022 and at 1,469.30 on EMS NEW EQUIPMENT in 2024 (V.E. Ralph check register pages 19 and 30). Defibrillators are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no overdose program using this equipment is documented.