Wear Red for Women, a Bothwell Foundation Committee, recently gave an automated external defibrillator (AED) to the Smithton Youth Sports Complex. The complex is located south of Sedalia on Highway TT. The AED is a small, lightweight device that allows individuals and first responders to treat sudden cardiac arrest. The machine automatically analyzes the heart rhythm and when appropriate delivers an electrical shock to the heart to restore normal rhythm.

Funds to purchase the device were raised during the 2022 Wear Red for Women luncheon and auction. The committee’s goal is to have AED’s in every place people work, learn, play or pray in Sedalia and Pettis County. Since the inception of the luncheon event in 2020, 47 AED’s have been placed or committed to various locations.

Photo courtesy of Bothwell Regional Health Center