いのちのバトン~命を想う心・つなぐ勇気~ 話売り #1 (エレガンスイブ&フォアミセスCOMICS)

This is a (I assume somewhat fictionalized) account of the founding of a Japanese organization that advocates for AEDs and provides education on CPR and basic emergency life support. The founder's 16-year-old daughter collapsed due to ventricular fibrillation while participating in a 体育祭 and died; when the founder learned about AEDs and that her daughter might have lived if one was available to provide support, she began advocating for their availability and placement in Japan. Of course, as the end of the chapter tells us, simply having AEDs available does no good if nobody knows to use them (or they are locked up!), and so presumably the rest of the story is about her educational efforts.

I teared up a little at the scenes of the mother's grief - May Kawasaki is good at tugging at the heart strings - but I didn't feel the need to continue reading. Most of the dialogue is not difficult, but there is a relatively large amount of anatomical/medical vocabulary specific to the subject.