A roll out of community defibrillators at ambulance stations across Yorkshire is nearing completion.
The project has seen the devices installed at a number of Ambulance stations on the Yorkshire Coast including.
- Bridlington, Bessingby Road
- Filey, Padbury Avenue
- Scarborough, Queen Margaret’s Road
Thirty-three of the life-saving community public access defibrillators (CPADs) are being installed in total at ambulance stations across Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service is fitting the defibrillators - which can be accessed by residents in local communities - outside stations which don’t have another CPAD within a 600 metre radius.
Combined with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillators give cardiac arrest patients the best possible chance of survival.
The initiative originated from NHS 111 Senior Clinical Advisor/Paramedic Gavin Doxey who made the suggestion as a way of further increasing the number of life-saving devices in the community.
He said:
“I’m delighted my idea has been adopted as it will benefit the wider communities of Yorkshire. The equipment will be available as and when required to help save the lives of patients in cardiac arrest.”
Defibrillators give a high energy electric shock to the heart of someone who has suffered a cardiac arrest to restore the heart’s normal rhythm. The devices are easy to use, provide audible instructions to the user and will not deliver a shock unless it is required. No training is required to use the equipment.
Joanne Watson, Community Defibrillation Co-ordinator with the Community Resilience Team at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, has been overseeing the installation programme.
She said:
“We all know that defibrillation, along with CPR, are essential steps in the chain of survival. It’s great to be able to provide CPADs outside ambulance stations across Yorkshire so they can be accessed and used by members of the public to help save the lives of patients in cardiac arrest. Anyone who calls 999 for someone in cardiac arrest will be directed to their nearest device and provided with a code to the secure cabinet it’s contained in if necessary.”
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