Certified CPR machines as overdose harm reduction

The FY2025 report certifies a program named Auto Pulse at 307,909.80 expended, recipient Brick EMS/Rescue, primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, primary problem Ability to render aid to overdose victims. The key performance indicator it reports is Number of services provided/encounters: 0. Purchase order 25-01832 to ZOLL Medical Corp. is the purchase. It buys 10 AutoPulse NXT starter kits at 227,399.20, 10 lithium batteries at 14,670.60 and 10 four year service plans at 69,840.00, less 8 trade-in allowances of 4,000.00, a net of 307,909.80, the certified figure to the cent. The Council minutes of 05/13/2025 describe the same purchase at the same amount as an automated, portable, battery-powered cardiopulmonary resuscitation device, to be used as an adjunct to CPR during advanced cardiac life support, needed by the EMS Department. Resolution 167-25 states the need as medical equipment requested by the Chief of EMS and Rescue. Neither the minutes nor the resolution mentions overdose. The word opioid appears in both only as the name of the fund charged. The order trades in eight older AutoPulse units. No overdose program using the devices is documented, and mechanical CPR devices are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.