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News Release from: Laerdal Medical | Subject: defibrillator
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 March 2006
Laerdal donates Heartstart
defibrillators
In response to the current demand for HeartStart defibrillators, at the Safety and Health Expo 06, Laerdal will be exhibiting defibrillators to suit every first aid and professional need.
Laerdal donates Heartstart First Aid defibrillators In response to the current demand for HeartStart defibrillators throughout workplaces, leisure complexes, retail facilities, schools, airports, sporting venues, occupational health and NHS ambulance services; on stand no
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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M82 at the Safety and Health Expo 06, NEC Birmingham 9-11 May, Laerdal Medical will be exhibiting a range of HeartStart defibrillators to suit every first aid and professional need.
Laerdal, whose unforgettable portrayal of a sudden cardiac arrest on The Runway at last year's Safety and Health Expo held many spectators routed to their seats, is hoping to "shock" this year's visitors with a similar Runway concept that concludes with a dramatic HeartStart "save".
Worldwide sales since 2000 of the Heartstart First Aid Defibrillator have exceeded 200,000 and in celebration of this achievement Laerdal Medical has donated a defibrillator to four different organisations across the UK.
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In an effort to improve the current 5 per cent "survival to hospital" rate for SCA victims, defibrillators are becoming more and more prevalent in workplaces and public places.
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FR2 Heartstart First Aid Defibrillators have been donated to Essex Fire and Rescue (for use by its International Search and Rescue Division) and Selly Oak Hospital (for use with their West Midlands Care Team) and FRX Heartstart First Aid Defibrillators have been donated to Southport Lifeboat and the RNLI station at Tower Pier, London.
Laerdal has also donated vital training equipment to Marwell Zoo for the organisation's new Community Responder Scheme.
The Little Anne AED Link Trainer, which includes lifelike "Resusci Anne" manikins and a Hearstart training defibrillator, will be used to teach the team of first responder volunteers how to administer CPR and defibrillation.
"The more defibrillators available the more lives will be saved," explains Tony Kemp, product specialist with Laerdal Medical "and to know that more than 200,000 Heartstart First Aid Defibrillators are available around the world now is great news".
"We decided that this milestone should be marked by us donating our leading models to organisations that we felt justly deserved it, who are widely respected by all and who, with the donation of a defibrillator, would only increase the number of lives they already save every year".
In around 85 per cent of cardiac arrests, the heart simply loses its rhythm and goes into ventricular fibrillation (VF).
In this condition, a defibrillator can safely shock the heart back into a regular beating pattern.
If administered within 2-3 minutes of collapse, the chances of the victim's survival are increased by up to 50%.
The defibrillator must be used within the first 4 - 5 minutes- the sooner the better as the rate of successful recovery decreases by an alarming 10 per cent per minute.
In the absence of a defibrillator, CPR alone is not enough.
Without early defibrillation, the patient will almost certainly die.
Although Laerdal's HeartStart First Aid Defibrillator is a technically advanced piece of equipment, it is small, very robust and surprisingly easy to use.
Automated voice commands and comprehensive diagrams take the operator through each step of the way.
Independent scientific user trials show that the Laerdal HeartStart First Aid Defibrillator is the most simple to operate AED (automatic external defibrillator) on the market.
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