Mastering known risks of sudden cardiac arrest
Before I started Rapid Response Revival, I had a skydiving business. In the eight years I devoted to starting, building and eventually selling that business, tens of…
Tag: OHCA
What stops us helping someone in cardiac arrest
The circumstances surrounding the murder of 28-year-old New Yorker, Kitty Genovese in Kew Gardens, Queens in 1964, spawned the idea of the Bystander Effect. The social psychologists…
In pursuit of better personal access to AEDs
We need better personal access to AEDs to address the massive gap in the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) chain of survival.
Public access defibrillators save lives. We need more.
The evidence is overwhelming that public access defibrillators save lives, and that more are needed.
Teaching AED awareness in schools is just the start
Last month, the Welsh Parliament passed a Bill committing to the teaching of CPR and AED (automated external defibrillator) awareness skills in Welsh schools from 2022.