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Introduction

  • A cardiac arrest happens when your heart stops pumping blood around your body.
  • Each year in England the emergency services attempt to resuscitate 28,000 cases of cardiac arrest that occur outside hospitals.
  • When someone has a cardiac arrest, every minute without cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation reduces their chances of survival by 7–10 %.
  • Approximately 80 % of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur at home, but 20% happen outside the home - to help improve the chances of survival if one were to occur here, the Department of Biology has acquired a defibrillator.
  • THE DEFIBRILLATOR IS DESIGNED TO BE USED BY UNTRAINED PERSONS