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Make it Law for all Nursing / Care Homes to store a Defribrillator (AED)

Submitted on Monday 21st January 2019

Published on Wednesday 30th January 2019

Current status: Closed

Closed: Tuesday 30th July 2019

Signatures: 46

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care homes ~ Law

Petition Action

Make it Law for all Nursing / Care Homes to store a Defribrillator (AED)

Petition Details

Elderly parients are at higher risk of life threatening cardiac arrest and very few Nursing / Care homes have static AED (Automated External Defibrillator) units in place which delays life saving treatment to the parient. without immediate treatment 90-95% of sudden cardiac arrest victims will die.

Additional Information

If AED is used and effective CPR is performed within 3-5minutes of cardiac arrest, the patients chance of survival increases from 6% to 74%. The Emergency services average response time to a cardiac event related incident in an urban area is 11 minutes. For every minute that goes by a victim of a sudden cardiac arrest does not receive treatment, their chance of survival decreases by 10%. If defibrillation occurs within 1 minute of the victim collapsing the patient survival rate increases to 90%.


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