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Be sure to select Project ADAM when designating your gift online. |
Project ADAM (Automated Defibrillators in Adam's Memory) is a not-for-profit program of Herma Heart Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. The mission of the program is to serve children and adolescents through education and deployment of life-saving programs that help prevent sudden cardiac arrest.
 Project ADAM began in 1999 after a series of sudden deaths among high school athletes in southeastern Wisconsin. Many of these deaths appear due to ventricular fibrillation. After Adam Lemel, a 17-year-old Whitefish Bay, Wis. high school student, collapsed and died while playing basketball, Adam's parents - Patty Lemel and Joe Lemel - along with David Ellis, a childhood friend of Adam's, collaborated with Children's Hospital of Wisconsin to create this program in Adam's memory.
Real life rescue with an AED
In a situation where someone is in sudden cardiac arrest, every second counts and having an AED available can be the difference between life and death. Recently a 12 year-old girl collapsed at school and the quick actions of the teachers to get the AED was caught on the school's surveillance camera. Click here to watch the entire story.
For more information about Project ADAM, call (414) 266-3889 or e-mail projectadam@chw.org. |
