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Defibrillators roll out

by Mark Rowe

The Football Association (FA) and the charity the British Heart Foundation are calling on grassroots and amateur football clubs in England to install defibrillators.

The BHF and the FA have already helped part-fund and place around 600 defibrillators at clubs across the country. A further 900 are available to clubs operating within the national league system, the women’s pyramid of football or Charter Standard programme.

Lisa Hodgson, the FA’s medical education lead, said: “The FA continues to recognise the importance of providing timely and appropriate emergency first aid following casualties at footballing activities. Alongside our partners at the British Heart Foundation and WEL Medical, we are supplementing our CPR training by providing an excellent opportunity to receive equipment that could mean all the difference in a potentially life-threatening situation. I would implore football clubs across the country to apply.”

For every minute without CPR and defibrillation, a person’s chance of survival decreases by around 10 per cent. A defibrillator is an automatic device that can be used by the public to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm during cardiac arrest; before an ambulance arrives.

The devices may be found in schools, sports stadia; airports, shopping and leisure centres, libraries, hospitals, fire stations, care homes, clinics; at the summit of Snowdon; and in ambulances. On public transport, the Tyneside Metro operator Nexus has fitted defibrillators at Haymarket and Monument Metro stations in the centre of Newcastle.

In London, Metropolitan Police cars (boot pictured, courtesy of the Met) in more London boroughs are being equipped with defibrillators. The latest boroughs in August with Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are Brent, Haringey and Kingston upon Thames. If those police reach the patient first, or are already on scene, they can begin providing life-saving treatment until a clinician arrives.

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