Saving lives in an emergency
From pioneering defibrillators in ambulances to CPR training and public access defibrillators, find out how we’ve been helping to save lives since 1961.
There are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK each year. A cardiac arrest means that the heart has stopped pumping blood around the body and is often due to a life-threatening abnormal heart rhythm caused by a heart attack, or less commonly by another condition such as an inherited heart rhythm problem. Even now, in the UK only 1 in 10 of those who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survive.
Throughout our 60-year history we’ve been working to change this. The first step was to make the emergency equipment that existed in hospitals available to those who collapsed at home, at work, or on the street.
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West Midlands Ambulance Service urging everyone to learn life-saving CPR skills
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SECONDARY-school students across Keighley are once again being given the chance to learn lifesaving skills. Restart a Heart Day, which has proved popular with district schools in the past, is poised to return this year. Yorkshire Ambulance Service says it hopes an easing of Covid-19 restrictions in the coming months will enable the initiative, which teaches young people cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), to take place face-to-face – alongside online training. The venture is planned for Friday, October 15. And schools are being urged to sign-up now. To make the sessions more accessible to all secondary schools, Yorkshire Ambulance Service has developed a new training aid – the Pillow Partner – to enable those without manikins to practise hands-only CPR.
Study shows CPR is the “gold standard” technique against other alternatives
A technique frequently portrayed in dramatic resuscitation scenes in television and film is among several alternative methods to CPR that have shown no benefit in saving lives in a review by University of Warwick researchers.
The systematic review reinforces cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as the gold standard technique when health professionals or members of the public are attempting to resuscitate someone in cardiac arrest.
The article, published in the journal
Resuscitation, is the first comprehensive systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of three less-used resuscitation techniques: cough CPR, percussion pacing and precordial thump. The precordial thump, in which a patient is struck on the chest in the hope of restarting the heart, has often been used in dramatic scenes in TV and film, such as in