Thank you for visiting the Perth Defibrillator website. You are one step closer to making the important decision of getting a defibrillator (AED) for your organisation. Now is the time to make your workplace, organisation, club a ‘heart safe place’.
We really want to help educate everyone on how important it is to have access to a defibrillator in spaces where people gather. We have put together a list of facts and figures about heart attacks and cardiac arrest that we believe everyone should know. These points can seem a little frightening however by ensuring you have a defibrillator available it can help save lives
Further Facts and Figures
- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death, with an estimated 15,000 people suffering a cardiac arrest in Australia every year.
- 30% of cardiac arrests happen in Public Places
- When a cardiac arrest takes place. For every minute without performing CPR or providing defibrillation the chances of the patient surviving is reduced by 7-10%
- The chances of survival of cardiac arrest will increase from 6% to 74% if a defibrillator (AED) is performed within 3 to 5 minutes
- Emergency services average response time with Australian cities is from 10 to 15 minutes. This is usually not sufficient time to get to a patient and start performing emergency EMS treatment.
- 11 Thousand lives could be saved if every public place had a AED defibrillator available.
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