As of January this year, Aotearoa New Zealand became just the second country (after Canada) to adopt a groundbreaking new procedure for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. Known as “double ...
Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete ...
Defibrillators can save lives, but only if they are working. Early CPR and defibrillation can more than double survival rates in a cardiac arrest5 Damaged shock pads, flat batteries or missing parts ...
Defibrillators are being added to community response vehicles to boost survival rates in emergencies. Delta Wellbeing, based in Carmarthenshire, has received six defibrillators from the Welsh ...
Delta Wellbeing’s community response vehicles will soon carry defibrillators thanks to Save a Life Cymru’s donation, ...
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates dropped significantly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and have continued to remain lower than in the pre-pandemic years of 2015-2019, ...