On 14 May 2021, Peking University Yenching Academy launched an AED management project in Beijing. The Academy introduced its first AED with Sinoaid Health Promotion Center supporting the launch. The project illustrates an important point about campus preparedness: placing a device is the beginning of a response system, not the end of one.
The setting and the project need
Yenching Academy is an international academic community within Peking University. At the 2021 launch, the Academy announced the installation of its first automated external defibrillator (AED). A device on a campus needs an accessible location, people who recognise a cardiac emergency, a way to bring the AED promptly and a plan for checking its readiness. Those were the practical themes behind the management initiative.
Launching an AED management programme
Sinoaid participated in the AED management launch, and a representative spoke at the event. The project plan connected AED user training, equipment checks, consumable replacement and campus health-safety education. Together, these elements addressed both the device and the people who would need to use it.
The management perspective remains useful to an organisation planning its own AED programme. It asks who owns the equipment record, who inspects the device, who can reach it when the building is open or closed, and how new staff learn the response pathway. Training and maintenance should be planned together so that an AED remains a usable part of the campus emergency system.
What the project demonstrates
The 2021 AED-management launch in Beijing is distinct from later campus projects. It shows how AED placement, user learning and maintenance responsibility can be planned as one programme rather than three disconnected tasks.
Organisations considering a similar pathway can explore AED programmes, the Workplace Health & Safety gateway and the wider Case Studies archive.