Groups Urging Schools to Install Defibrillators to Curb Cardiac Deaths

By Michelle Galley

When John and Rachel Moyer's 15-year-old son collapsed in his school's locker room during a basketball game on Dec. 2, 2000, no one knew that the boy had suffered from a life-threatening heart disease.

Gregory Moyer's school in Stroudsburg, Pa., was 25 minutes away from the nearest hospital, and even though he received cardiopulmonary resuscitation treatment almost immediately and was taken to an emergency room, it wasn't enough. He died later that night.

Today, Gregory's parents say, the one thing that could have saved their son's life was an automatic external defibrillator. And now they are on a campaign to make AEDs as commonplace in...