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Who is at risk from a cardiac arrest?
Sudden cardiac arrests (SCA) occur when the hearts natural rhythm stops beating at it’s normal pace and a heartbeat becomes irregular. This results in the blood flow to the brain being stopped as well as other vital organs, a SCA usually results in death unless life saving care is delivered within minutes.There are often misconceptions between a heart attack and a SCA. An easy way to remember the difference is that a heart attack is caused by something blocking the arteries and is usually linked
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29th Sep 2019
Defibrillator fundraising - what is available and how?
Defibrillators save lives everyday across the UK. Yearly, 30,000 people suffer from a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and they can affect anyone from children to adults, male to female and across all ethnicities. As SCA’s occur completely out of the blue and often without any prior warning, victims can fall ill across a range of environments from school to work, at the shops or whilst playing sports.Unfortunately, if victims aren’t treated quickly enough, SCA’s are more often than not fatal however,
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26th Sep 2019
Why choose a powerheart G5 defibrillator?
Powerheart G5 defibrillators are unlike any other. Of course, having a defibrillator to hand during the event of an emergency can make the difference between life and death, but no other gives you peace of mind like Powerheart G5 defibrillators do. Being the only defibrillators that fully self-test everyday, they are already way ahead of the game when compared to other AEDs which self-test on average just once weekly. Testing it’s own defibrillation pads, battery and internal circuit everyday en
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15th Sep 2019
Learn how to save a life - How to do CPR
With up to 60,000 people a year dying in the UK due to a sudden cardiac arrest, delivering safe and effective CPR is so important and is so easy to learn. It can be achieved in six simple steps regardless of whether you have had training or not. If you are with someone who suddenly falls unconscious and has stopped breathing or has stopped breathing normally, you must first shake and shout.Gently shaking someone by the shoulders and asking loudly if they are okay allows you to establish if
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8th Sep 2019
Learn how to save a life - Defibrillators
Defibrillators are emergency medical tools that allow anyone who is nearby to deliver life saving care when someone falls ill due to a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). When a SCA occurs you need to act very quickly as they are caused by a problem with the heart’s electrical rhythm meaning a victims heartbeat is not beating at it’s usual pace.People who are suffering from a SCA will fall unconscious and their breathing will have either stopped or will be irregular. To help someone who is sufferi
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2nd Sep 2019