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Defibrillators are an essential part of the emergency response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). However, the UK does not publish a single national figure for “lives saved by defibrillators alone”, because survival depends on multiple linked steps: early recognition, calling 999, immediate CPR, early defibrillation (by a public AED and/or ambulance crews), and subsequent hospital care. Instead, the most reliable way to describe the impact of defibrillators is to use published …