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News Release from: Laerdal Medical | Subject: Heartstart defibrillator
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 June 2003
Heartstart defibrillator showcased at
exhibitions
CMPi lead the way with HEARTSTART defibrillators on hand at the SandH Expo, ACPO Event and International Fire Expo 2003.
CMPi lead the way with HEARTSTART defibrillators on hand at the SandH Expo, ACPO Event and International Fire Expo 2003 Safety and Health Expo 2003, together with International Fire Expo 2003 and ACPO 2003 attracted in the region of 20,000 visitors and exhibitors to the NEC Birmingham in May
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 3 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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At this year's Ambex, Laerdal Medical will be exhibiting the new Heartstart First Aid Defibrillator on Stand no. A14.
To demonstrate their conviction for providing proactive first aid for sudden cardiac arrest victims in public places, CMP Information - the exhibition organisers - lead the way by placing Laerdal HEARTSTART first aid defibrillators at designated points throughout the six exhibition halls covered.
Before the event, CMPi staff attended a Laerdal training session to learn how to administer emergency first aid defibrillation using the HEARTSTART, so that in the event of an exhibitor or visitor suffering a sudden cardiac arrest; immediate, potentially life-saving help would be on hand.
Simon Foster, CMPi's market director explains, "The May Expo is the UK's biggest annual exhibition of safety and health organisations and products for the workplace and the emergency services".
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On the Safety and Health Expo's "The Runway", Laerdal's dramatic portrayal of a sudden cardiac arrest in the workplace will demonstrate the importance of early defibrillation.
"Thankfully, no heart attacks were reported, however, if somebody had had the misfortune of a sudden cardiac arrest whilst at the Expo, the chance of a tragedy would have been minimised." He continues, "Laerdal's HEARTSTART is very easy to use, and once we had been familiarised with the product in the short training session, we were all confident that should the need arise, we would be able to administer first aid defibrillation effectively".
"Early defibrillation can save lives, and CMP Information is behind the campaign for organisations to provide defibrillators in public places and the workplace".
"We are looking into placing HEARTSTART defibrillators at all our exhibitions in the future".
In order to educate onlookers in the importance of early defibrillation, Laerdal's show-stopping scene on the Runway at the Safety and Health Expo was in cold contrast to the frivolity of some of the other action.
It started with office workers carrying out their daily duties in a normal office environment, when suddenly one of the models collapsed, simulating a cardiac arrest.
A Laerdal "HEARTSTART first aid defibrillator" was on hand, so defibrillation could take place within the 2-3 minute window for a 50 per cent better survival rate.
Deathly silence fell over the watching crowd as the voice prompts from Heartstart directed the victim's "colleagues" to take off the clothes covering the chest, attach the pads and stand back while the heart was monitored and defibrillation activated.
After a few minutes of monitoring and further treatment, the scene showed the 'victim' recovering after successful defibrillation had returned his heart to a normal beating pattern.
In a real life situation, at this point the paramedics would be able to transfer the patient to hospital for further treatment and monitoring.
Over 150,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest in the UK every year, making it the UK's most common cause of sudden death.
The risk of a heart attack increases in people over the age of 35 years and this risk is further increased with obesity, lack of exercise and stress as well as family history of cardiac arrest.
Many of today's industries carry out risk assessments on the working environment to ensure the health and safety of their employees, but a risk assessment on their employees could also ascertain that some of them are at risk of a cardiac arrest and a first aid defibrillator on site could save an employee's or visitor's life.
Statistics from the BHF show that most heart attacks take place in public places such as train stations, airports, leisure centres, gyms and in the workplace.
In up to 85 per cent of cardiac arrests, the heart simply loses its rhythm, and goes into ventricular fibrillation (VF).
A heart in VF requires urgent, definitive treatment - defibrillation - rather than CPR which simply "buys time" until the ambulance arrives.
Laerdal's UK product development manager Tony Kemp explains, "CMPi's decision to provide HEARTSTART defibrillators in the exhibition halls was based on an understanding of the importance of early defibrillation and a responsibility to visitors and exhibitors".
"At the moment, only 5 per cent of sudden cardiac arrest victims survive".
"Pre hospital defibrillation within 2-3 minutes of arrest dramatically increases the chances of a patient's survival to over 50 per cent".
"If more organisations provided first aid defibrillators in public places, place of work, leisure venues etc, these statistics would be vastly improved.".
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