Defibrillators
Over the last three years your Parish Council has provided and installed 3 defibrillator units.
A defibrillator is a device that gives a high energy electric shock to the heart of someone who is in cardiac arrest (having a heart attack). This high energy shock is called defibrillation, and it's an essential part in trying to save the life of someone who’s in cardiac arrest. A defibrillator may also be called a defib, an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) or a PAD (Public Access Defibrillator).
To learn more about defibfrilators and how to use them, please follow this link to the British Heart Foundation website.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-help/how-to-save-a-life/defibrillators
Your Parish Council defibrillators are located at:-
- Sunny Bank, Shaw Mills,
- The Parish Hall, Warsill,
- Grove Farm (BKP of Mr Kirby), Bishop Thornton.
The units are in bright yellow cabinets and are easy to spot from the road.
They very simple to use; they tell you - literally - what to do and you cannot make a mistake if you follow the instructions.
CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) is an emergency lifesaving procedure, performed when the heart stops beating, often called a cardiac arrest. It is necessary to save the life of someone in cardiac arrest. It gives time for a defibrillator to arrive, protecting the heart and brain until the heart can be restarted.
Each year over 40,000 people have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the UK. Less than 1 in 10 survive. Giving CPR promptly and using a defibrillator can more than double the chances of survival.
Please visit the British Heart Foundation website to do a 15 minute session to learn how to do CPR and help save a life.
