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