The City of McKinney has an ambitious plan to put automated electronic defibrillators in the hands of more than 400 residents. It’s part of an effort improve heart attack survival rates, and the city says so far it’s working.
A cardiac arrest was about the last thing Jody de St. Germain worried about as a healthy 64-year-old who was active and rode his bike as much as 40 miles a day.
But last April, de St. Germain was inside the McKinney bike shop where he worked when he suffered a severe electric shock while handling a light fixture, causing his heart to stop beating…