February 23, 2012

News & Events

The Latest Mikey Network News

Parsons & Cummings Limited Donate A MIKEY

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A lifesaving MIKEY defibrillator was donated to Timberlane Athletic Club in Aurora, Ontario, by Cal, Angie, Kim and Andrea Parsons on behalf of Parsons & Cummings Limited. We want to thank them for their continued support!

Continuous Chest Compression CPR Video- Please Watch!

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Continuous Chest Compression CPR  is a hands-only (No mouth -to-mouth) CPR method that doubles a person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest!  This fantastic video put out by The University of Arizona School of Medicine’s Sarver Heart Center, teaches you how to use this method of CPR. In the video, you learn Continuous Chest Compression CPR from Gordon [...]

1000 Toys Donated to Toy Mountain

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The Mikey Network, Heathwood Homes, and  Two Men And A Truck, joined forces for our 2011 charity toy drive.  In the end, we donated 1000 toys!  The CTV Toy Mountain toy drive benefitted the Salvation Army. We want to thank all of the Mikey Network, Heathwood Homes, & Two Men And A Truck customers, suppliers and [...]

City News Toronto: CPR Lesson Turns Into A Real Life MIKEY Rescue

Hero teachers save student's life with a MIKEY

Tom Hayes from City News Toronto, reports on the quick thinking teachers at Silverhorn Collegiate Highschool that used a MIKEY to save a 17 year old student. The MIKEY was placed at the school through our Mikey’s Young At Heart School Defibrillator Program. Part 1 (5:30 Newscast) Part 2 (6:00 Newscast)

Silverthorn Teachers Use A MIKEY To Save A 17 Year Old Student’s Life

Sharon McConnell and Sean King Save Student's Life with a MIKEY AED

In an amazing case of serendipity, Sean King was teaching his 9th Grade class CPR, when he noticed fellow teacher Sharon McConnell cradling a Grade 12 basketball player whose heart had stopped. The two teachers used a MIKEY defibrillator and CPR to restore the teen’s pulse before emergency crews arrived.  The young man is currently recovering. The Toronto Star [...]

2011 Mikey Network Award In Nutritional Sciences

2011 Mikey Network Award In Nutritional Sciences

Congratulations to Candice Cao and Denis Tsang, winners of the 2011 Mikey Network Award In Nutritional Sciences. The award was presented on Tuedsay, November 8th, 2011 in a ceremony at Ryerson University.

Mikey Finds A Home At Richtree

A New Mikey AED placed at Richtree

Richtree Market Restaurant’ s Vice President Patric Laflamme (second from left) receives a MIKEY defibrillator and staff training package from David Eisenstadt, donated by B’nai Brith Executive Softball League’s “Gold Team” and The Communications Group Inc. The Mikey will be installed at Richtree’s Bayview & York Mills restaurant across from Irving Paisley Park, where the Executive [...]

Amy Rosen Takes First Place at Iron Chef-style Cook-off

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Amy Rosen took first place at the Blue Dragon Iron Chef-style cook-off for food media, and generously donated her $2,000 prize cheque to the Mikey Network. Thank you Amy!! Photo credit: ntbCreative.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association Honours The Mikey Network With Public Service Award

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The Mikey Network is so proud to have been honoured with the  2011 SCAA Public Service Award, by the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association at their 2011 Leadership Awards & Benefit. In their words: Furthering efforts to increase public safety and consciousness of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in communities across the country, the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association (SCAA) honored [...]

GO Hero Uses A MIKEY Defibrillator To Save A Passenger’s Life

Mikey defibrillator used to save GO passenger

As the GO train pulled in to Union Station, George Koshil, who had been scheduled for coronary artery bypass surgery in late October, collapsed and went into cardiac arrest on Platform 12. Lucky for him, GO customer service ambassador Derek Thompson was there.  After Koshil stopped breathing, Thompson fastened a Mikey (portable Automated External Defibrillator) [...]