SAVED IN A HEART BEAT - We really are so vulnerable, so easily broken. My client Elizabeth Lucas never thought after attending my CPR courses over the years and deciding to invest in my Adopt-A-Defib™ initiative that she would need to use it on her husband John.
In March this year John collapsed at home unconscious and not breathing. It appeared John had suffered a mammalian meat (red meat) anaphylactic reaction resulting in sudden cardiac arrest (John doesn’t suffer with allergies).
The Adopt-A-Defib™ package features the HeartSine® Sam 500P with CPR Advisor which significantly improves CPR efficacy by giving the appropriate, dynamic feedback to the rescuer advising them on good compressions or to push harder, offering many a better chance of survival in the case of sudden cardiac arrest.
CPR Advisor kept Elizabeth calm and focused in a highly stressful situation by continually prompting her to "push harder" buying John time until the Paramedics arrived 10 minutes after his collapse. Elizabeth couldn’t have imagined how hard she needed to push to maintain the optimum depth which equates to more than 5cm in adults for effective compressions as defined by the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC). She broke many of John’s ribs in saving his life - he was sore but very thankful!
The Paramedics, The Resuscitation Team at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and John’s Cardiologist all agree that Elizabeth’s high quality compressions guided by the Defib’s CPR Advisor certainly saved his life.
Elizabeth, John & I attended the donation event with the Take Heart Australia team and I wish to thank them for their support and work making it the norm – rather than the exception – to survive cardiac arrest in Australia.
Adopt-A-Defib™ is committed to saving lives and making public access AEDs more readily available. Please support this non-profit initiative on www.facebook.com/adoptadefib
*The donation of a HeartSine® Defibrillator through our Forward Hearts program by HeartSine AED extends this life-saving technology to even more people.
CPR Advisor more than an AED “it’s lifesaving, pure and simple"
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