CPR, AED & First Aid

Gayle Lorenc, CFM Director, Facilities

Websense has offered CPR/AED and First Aid training and recertification to our employees for many years through a variety of providers. We’ve always been satisfied with the training we received, however the excitement and overall involvement of the students was often lower than we would have liked. This year, we decide to give AED Leader a try based on their overall experience and value pricing. We were hopeful for a productive and fun class, but the learning environment that AED Leader brought to the table truly exceeded our expectations.”

… Most importantly, the class was fun and interactive, involving the students in real life scenarios and hands on practice. They even recruited an employee to act out an emergency in the middle of their lecture so we could practice our skills in a realistic atmosphere. Some of our employees didn’t even know it was an act!

The instructors were thoroughly engaging. By the end of the class, we not only received our two year American Heart Association certification, but gained a comfort level to address emergency situations should they arise.

Without reservation, we highly recommend AED Leader for any CPR/AED or First Aid training needs you may have.

Tom Nguyen, Supervisor Cell Culture Engineering,

My family and I were on a vacation in Maui when an incident at the beach required the use of CPR. The training provided by AED Leader, gave me and my wife the necessary knowledge and tools needed to perform effective lifesaving CPR. We saved her life that day, thank you!

Kathy – Packard Dental

Thank you for being flexible and being able to come to our location to provide our health care provider CPR class. The staff appreciated you explaining CPR using not only the book to refer to but also the hands on knowledge from your personal experience. In comparison to other times that we have had the training, it was easier to understand this time, much more practical. Hearing from a Paramedic as well as a nurse brought more to the instruction.

Count on us to have you renew our CPR the next time. If I hear of others that need the training, I am most happy to refer them to you.

Steve Tankersley Owner

Thanks for making this process so easy. We didn’t even know the law required an AED until you brought it to our attention. After that, setting up the CPR training and purchasing the device was customizable and easy. In just a few hours, several of my trainers and I learned everything we need to know about using an AED along with getting re-certified in CPR.

Jeff Murdock, Carlsbad CERT Team Coordinator

AED Leader worked seamlessly with our staff to identify all of the AED’s within City facilities. They trained City staff at each of our facilities and introduced them to the new inspection policy and how to enter information into the AED Total Solution database program.

They then sent new supplies right out to every facility that needed them and made sure they were installed correctly, and they’ve continued to stay on top of our AED’s and supplies. Additionally, AED Leader has been very responsive to all question from our city staff making the transition extremely easy and efficient.

Robert A. Rodriguez

When Navy Federal Credit Union (West Coast Hub) handed me this project, I was fairly certain that these kinds of classes were informative to be sure, and beneficial, no doubt….. But when I first called and talked to Brian Graddon, founder of AED Leader in Oceanside, CA, he was very cordial, informative, and professional in his presentation of the services provided by him andhis staff of highly trained professional Firefighters, EMT’s, & Paramedics who bring real life experiences to the classroom……

This, along with a light-hearted, but informative presentation and up-to-date, improved exercise techniques made it an easy, relaxed and fun way to learn skills that are so vital, when needed…. I highly recommend Brian and his staff to any Company that is looking to prepare its Team Leaders to be able to respond to an emergency, and the importance of having an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) at your place of business… AED Leader will show you how vital it is to have an AED in the business workplace / or public place, where they are soon to be the norm…..

Thank you, Brian!

Jeanne Schaffner

As the Risk Management Coordinator for Springs Charter Schools I can highly recommend AED Leader for your CPR/First Aid/AED training. We have used several other training companies with mixed reviews. After our staff attended the AED Leader training the reviews were all excellent. The professionalism offered by trainers who work in the emergency medical field is top notch.

Our staff commented several times that they felt that this particular training equipped them to respond to an emergency situation much more than other trainings they had attended. State of the art equipment along with ‘real life” training videos also made the training a success. As a school that needs annual staff emergency training we have found a company we can stick with and look forward to working with them annually and know that we are receiving the best possible training for our staff with AED Leader.

Briana Perez

AED Leader has helped us to create an excellent AED program throughout every school and facility here at Oceanside Unified School District. With busy school nurses and health clerks, we were looking to improve our program, purchase new AEDs, and lessen the time and maintenance burden on our staff. AED Leader gave us great pricing on new AEDs on top of buying back our old units. They worked with us to decide exactly what our needs were, and walked us through every step of creating our new program. They delivered our new AEDs and equipment, entered all of our information into our new program portal, and trained the Nurses and Health clerks on keeping the AEDs up-to-date, staying legally compliant, and what to do in an emergency.

Since that time, they have been active with replacing supplies automatically and immediately responsive with answering questions, solving issues, and helping us to keep 40 AEDs spread over 29 locations organized and simple to manage. AED Leader also handled every aspect of a recent voluntary manufacturer recall, working on our behalf to ensure all effected AEDs were switched out successfully with new ones.

I would highly recommend them to-any organization contemplating purchasing AEDs, starting an AED program, or improving the program they currently have in place.