When city officials and police put emergency heart-care devices in Wilsonville's patrol cars last week, Mitch Beyer smiled knowingly.

Beyer, a Clackamas County Sheriff's deputy, used an automated external defibrillator to save a fellow officer's life in May 2006 during training exercises at Camp Rilea, near Warrenton.

"We were working out in a swimming pool," Beyer said. "Then all of a sudden, one of the guys collapsed."

I am a recent survivor of SCA (sudden cardiac arrest). Interestingly enough, I just came from my first visit with my electrophysiologist and when I referred to SCA, he looked puzzled. I said it referred to sudden cardiac arrest. He said he knew it as SCD or sudden cardiac death. I think his thinking is indicative of most people, including professionals, because most people do not survive my experience. I survived because there was an AED in place at the elementary school where I had my SCA.

Keith Ewald’s truck veered off FM 482, in the late morning of March 27th. The vehicle bounced through a desolate grass field, careening around a towering oak tree, before splicing between a telephone pole and fire hydrant. The light blue Ford rolled to a stop 500 feet...

ST. PETERSBURG — When David Garrity's hands could no longer pump oxygen, it was a machine in a plastic box that reclaimed his best friend's life.

David Bryant's body had been motionless on June 23 when St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue got to him. Bryant, 58, was in cardiac arrest, according to Garrity and an EMS report of the incident.

Garrity and a neighbor bowed their heads over his body, he said.

As a high school sophomore back in December 2000, Greg Moyer walked off the basketball court at halftime of a varsity game in East Stroudsburg, Pa., spotted his family in the bleachers and flashed that look. The same one he'd given his mother, Rachel Moyer, after she'd threatened one evening to make him eat the dirty socks he'd left under the couch. When she opened the refrigerator the next morning, several smelly pairs spilled out. "That mischievous smirk, that was Greg," Moyer says.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Quick: What would you do if you impaled yourself with a large, sharp, piece of wood? If your tooth fell out? If you fell from a high ladder? If your friend had a severe allergic reaction?

Even if you don't have first aid training, there are simple things everyone can learn to do in emergency situations. "You really could save somebody's life," says Dr. Assaad Sayah, chief of emergency medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts.

A letter recognizing the efforts of two security staff members at St. John's University in Queens NY. How fast CPR and use of an AED saved a life.

This is the first life to be saved by a KPD officer using one of the 75 new AEDs that were issued to KPD patrol units in November of this year.

When city officials and police put emergency heart-care devices in Wilsonville's patrol cars last week, Mitch Beyer smiled knowingly.

Beyer, a Clackamas County Sheriff's deputy, used an automated external defibrillator to save a fellow officer's life in May 2006 during training exercises at Camp Rilea, near Warrenton.

"We were working out in a swimming pool," Beyer said. "Then all of a sudden, one of the guys collapsed."

I am a recent survivor of SCA (sudden cardiac arrest). Interestingly enough, I just came from my first visit with my electrophysiologist and when I referred to SCA, he looked puzzled. I said it referred to sudden cardiac arrest. He said he knew it as SCD or sudden cardiac death. I think his thinking is indicative of most people, including professionals, because most people do not survive my experience. I survived because there was an AED in place at the elementary school where I had my SCA.

Keith Ewald’s truck veered off FM 482, in the late morning of March 27th. The vehicle bounced through a desolate grass field, careening around a towering oak tree, before splicing between a telephone pole and fire hydrant. The light blue Ford rolled to a stop 500 feet...

ST. PETERSBURG — When David Garrity's hands could no longer pump oxygen, it was a machine in a plastic box that reclaimed his best friend's life.

David Bryant's body had been motionless on June 23 when St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue got to him. Bryant, 58, was in cardiac arrest, according to Garrity and an EMS report of the incident.

Garrity and a neighbor bowed their heads over his body, he said.

As a high school sophomore back in December 2000, Greg Moyer walked off the basketball court at halftime of a varsity game in East Stroudsburg, Pa., spotted his family in the bleachers and flashed that look. The same one he'd given his mother, Rachel Moyer, after she'd threatened one evening to make him eat the dirty socks he'd left under the couch. When she opened the refrigerator the next morning, several smelly pairs spilled out. "That mischievous smirk, that was Greg," Moyer says.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Quick: What would you do if you impaled yourself with a large, sharp, piece of wood? If your tooth fell out? If you fell from a high ladder? If your friend had a severe allergic reaction?

Even if you don't have first aid training, there are simple things everyone can learn to do in emergency situations. "You really could save somebody's life," says Dr. Assaad Sayah, chief of emergency medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts.

A letter recognizing the efforts of two security staff members at St. John's University in Queens NY. How fast CPR and use of an AED saved a life.

This is the first life to be saved by a KPD officer using one of the 75 new AEDs that were issued to KPD patrol units in November of this year.