Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit

Spurred by the loss of their son, Dwyer family of Syracuse donates cardiac defibrillators to Syracuse University

Friday, April 6, 2001, By News Staff
Share

Spurred by the loss of their son, Dwyer family of Syracuse donates cardiac defibrillators to Syracuse UniversityApril 06, 2001Jonathan Hayjhay@syr.edu

To honor the memory of James J. Dwyer Jr., a victim of sudden cardiac death at age 31, the Dwyer family of Syracuse has donated three automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to Syracuse University in the hope that other lives may be saved. The AEDs will be placed in the University’s Risk Management Safety Department vehicles and will be available at all times on campus. Michael Ryan, administrator of the Safety Department, says the AEDs are greatly needed and appreciated. “Our Safety Department officers will have the AEDs at any large gathering–such as events at Manley Field House and the Schine Student Center, or high school events at Coyne Field–and they could mean the difference between saving or losing a life from sudden cardiac arrest,” he says. Sudden cardiac arrest affects about 400,000 to 500,000 individuals annually in the United States. The only treatment is cardiac defibrillation to restore the normal heart rhythm. While all Safety Department officers have been trained to use the AEDs, the devices are designed for use by anyone. The machines electronically guide the user through the defibrillation process and have monitors that keep them from delivering an electrical impulse to someone who isn’t in cardiac arrest. The Dwyers are determined to do what they can to avert the tragedy that happened in their family. “Jim was a healthy, physically fit young man,” says Kathleen Dwyer, Jim’s mother. “There was nothing structurally wrong with his heart. Something caused his heart to beat irregularly, ineffectively and to eventually stop. Our son needed defibrillation, and there was no AED available–very few AEDs are in public places. As a family, we refuse to assume that what is today must always be.” Ryan says SU is considering the purchase of more defibrillators to ensure that they will be available in more places on campus. The Dwyer family has also donated AEDs to LeMoyne College and is working to have the machines placed in locations throughout the city where people gather, such as at the OnCenter, Onondaga County War Memorial and Hancock International Airport. “We hope that our efforts will help the next person in a similar situation that Jim was in have a better chance of living,” Dwyer says. “As a family, we feel we have an opportunity and a responsibility to do what we can to honor his memory.”

  • Author

News Staff

  • Recent
  • Men’s Soccer Team Gives Back to Syracuse Community for Season of Support
    Friday, June 2, 2023, By Kathleen Haley
  • June 30 Deadline Set for Fiscal 2023 Year End Business
    Wednesday, May 31, 2023, By News Staff
  • DPS Accepting Sign-Ups for R.A.D. Summer Session
    Wednesday, May 31, 2023, By Alex Haessig
  • Syracuse Stage Adds 2 Musicals to 50th Anniversary Season
    Wednesday, May 31, 2023, By Joanna Penalva
  • Supporting, Advocating for Trans Youth Will Help Them Thrive As Adults
    Friday, May 26, 2023, By Daryl Lovell

More In Uncategorized

Syracuse Views Spring 2023

We want to know how you experience Syracuse University. Take a photo and share it with us. We select photos from a variety of sources. Submit photos of your University experience using #SyracuseU on social media, fill out a submission…

Awards of Excellence Honoree: Maxwell has Been ‘a Guiding Hand’ in Public Service Career

Standing before an audience of fellow Maxwell School alumni gathered in Washington, D.C., for the second annual Maxwell Awards of Excellence, CNN anchor Boris Sanchez ’09 shared the motivation behind his work as a journalist. Sanchez emigrated from Cuba as…

NASA Honoring Those Who Were Aboard Space Shuttle Columbia And Other Late Astronauts

Sean O’Keefe, University Professor in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the USA Today article “Twenty years later, loss of space shuttle Columbia still teaches us lessons.” The article emphasizes how NASA’s Memorial Grove is used to honor late astronauts,…

NFL, Eagles and Chiefs All Set To Win The Economics Game In Super Bowl LVII

Rodney Paul, director and professor of sport analytics in the Falk School, was quoted in the Washington Examiner story “The economics of the Super Bowl: Hosting, gambling, ads, and more.” The article talks in-depth about all of the economics that…

CEOs Requiring In Person Work Is Hurting Diversity

Arlene Kanter, director of the Disability and Policy Program and professor in the College of Law, was interviewed for the Business Insider article “Some CEOs are pushing workers to return to the office, but it could come with a cost:…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2023 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.