Now Anyone can Save a Life!

Can your community risk not having one?  Everyday someone like you helps to save a life using an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).  An AED is a small portable electronic device that analyses the heart rhythm and delivers a shock only if it is needed.  About the size of a box of chocolates, an AED is safe, easy to use, voice prompted, semi or fully automatic and informs the user what to do.

Life saving defibrillators are housed in secure, weatherproof, heated cabinets on the exterior walls of public places with 24 hour access.  All cabinets are keypad locked for security. 

In an emergency call 999 to obtain the Access Code for the cabinet so that the AED can be taken and used on the patient.  Meanwhile Emergency Services are dispatched to the scene.

Facts about Sudden Cardiac Arrest

• It strikes without warning taking the lives of 250 people a day in the UK
• Less than 5% of its victims in the UK survive
• It kills more people than lung or breast cancer
• It can happen to anyone, even young athletes
• Defibrillation is the only treatment
• Defibrillation within three minutes increases the chance of survival to over 70%
• Only defibrillation can return a heart to a normal rhythm

Statement from: The Resuscitation Council (UK)

Press Release, April 2009 – “It is the view of the Resuscitation Council (UK) that the use of AEDs should not be restricted to trained personnel.  Furthermore, the Resuscitation Council (UK) considers that it is inappropriate to display notices to the effect that only trained personnel should use the devices, or to restrict their use in other ways.  Such restrictions are against the interests of victims of cardiac arrest and discourage the greater use of AEDs by members of the public who may be able to preserve life and assist victims of cardiac arrest.”  Click here to find out more: Resuscitation Council.

Do not delay!  It is easy...  Find out How to Buy or install your AED in a community or public place.

It is our goal to locate PADs (Public Access Defibrillators) in communities and homes, and to make them as commonplace as fire extinguishers and smoke detectors.

The following NHS Ambulance Services support the initiative to have Public Access Defibrillators in communities:

• The Great Western Ambulance Service
• The Welsh Ambulance Service
• The East Midlands Ambulance Service
• The South Central Ambulance Service
• The South Western Ambulance Service
• The States of Jersey Ambulance Service
• The South East Coast Ambulance Service
• The West Midlands Ambulance Service

Click on any of the links above to access the website for the specific Ambulance Service. 

 

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