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When should a defibrillator be used?
A defibrillator should be used when someone is suffering a sudden cardiac arrest. These can happen to anyone, regardless of age, gender or ethnicity so it’s important to have a defibrillator nearby such as at your work, in the local community, in supermarkets and sports facilities. What is a cardiac arrest? A cardiac arrest occurs when there is an electrical problem with the heart causing it to stop beating properly. They can be caused by arrhythmias where the electrical impulses may h
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19th Sep 2022
What defibrillator should I buy?
Defibrillators are medical devices, used when someone suffers a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). These can happen to anyone, at any time and often without warning. A sudden cardiac arrest occurs when there is an electrical fault with the heart and is often confused with a heart attack. The two vary in that a heart attack is caused when blood flow to the heart is blocked. This results in the person feeling light headed or dizzy, pain spreading across the chest to arms and shortness of breath to
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15th Aug 2022
How much do community defibrillators cost?
Defibrillators are used to when someone is suffering a sudden cardiac arrest. They deliver a shock to the heart if needed in order to encourage it to start beating again on it’s own, at it’s natural pace. Sudden cardiac arrests can happen to anyone at anytime, gender, age or ethnicity doesn’t play a role in who will have a sudden cardiac arrest.Sudden cardiac arrests are caused by electrical faults with the heart, this causes the heart to stop beating by which point the patient will have fallen
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21st Jul 2022
Does an AED require maintenance?
An automatic external defibrillator, also known as an AED is used to shock a patient’s heart who has gone into sudden cardiac arrest. A shock, if needed, is delivered in order to encourage the heart to start beating again at it’s natural pace. A sudden cardiac is caused by an electrical fault with the heart which interferes with how it beats which subsequently stops blood being pumped around the body. A person will fall unconscious and need medical assistance urgently.Thankfully, AEDs have been
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28th Jun 2022
What is an AED cabinet?
An AED cabinet, also known as an automatic external defibrillator cabinet is used to store defibrillators. Defibrillators are used to save a patient when they are suffering a sudden cardiac arrest. They scan the heart to determine whether a shock is needed and if so, will deliver one. This shock stops the heart from beating so that it can resume again at it’s normal pace naturally.The success rate of a defibrillator can be as high as 90% if used within the first minute of someone falling ill. Wi
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4th Jun 2022