Village Hall Defibrillator
The Village Hall defibrillator is mounted on the outside of the village hall. It is available to treat anyone suffering from a cardiac arrest in the village, 24 hours per day, 365 days a year. The defibrillator is stored in a special temperature controlled cabinet mounted outside of the hall. A code is needed to access the cabinet. If you call the emergency services for a cardiac arrest, and are close to the hall you will be told about the defibrillator and given the access code. If you are more than 200 meters away from the hall then if you ask the operator for the code, they will give you instructions. As far as we know there is no other defibrillator publicly available in the village.
The Village Hall Committee arranges free training courses for local villagers on the use of the defibrillator by Heart Start Malvern. Please get in touch if you would like to attend by emailing info@callowend.co.uk. The access code will be given to all trained volunteers and regular hall hirers.
Cardiac arrests can affect anyone at any time. 30,000 occur outside of hospitals across the UK each year. Currently less than 10% of these people experiencing cardiac arrests in the community survive…
With speedy emergency treatment, chances of survival shoot up by a whopping 80%. CPR and AED shocks given within the first four minutes are crucial to enable survival. Yet, terrifyingly, the average ambulance response time in an urban area is a full eleven minutes. In the rest of the UK, it’s around 8 minutes.
20% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in public places. If you suffer an arrest out and about, you would be reliant on the public’s ability to perform CPR and indeed the availability of a defibrillator. CPR alone can double the chances of survival. When you use a defibrillator in addition to quality CPR, the odds of someone’s survival can jump from around 6% to 74% – an incredible difference.
