Sandhill View Academy has donated a defibrillator for the community to use.
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00:00Okay, Mrs Dodd, why did you decide to install the defibrillator for the whole community
00:04of Euston?
00:05Well, earlier in the year a member of the public came in and used the defibrillator
00:09to borrow our defibrillator for an emergency and that kind of triggered a thought as to
00:14what if it happened outside of the school hours when the school building was shut?
00:19And I would hate to think that there was an emergency where a member of the public needed
00:23a defibrillator and couldn't get access to ours because the building was shut.
00:28So I contacted Sergio at Red Sky and I said, look, we've got a defibrillator here that
00:33we'd like to donate to the community, how would we go about fundraising for the casing?
00:39And Red Sky Foundation said that they would donate the casing to allow this to be put
00:43up fairly swiftly so that the public could use it.
00:48And Charlie and Lucy, why do you think it's so important this piece of equipment is made
00:51accessible for the whole community to use?
00:53I think it's important because it's life-saving machinery which anyone can use because it's here.
00:58And yourself, Lucy?
00:59I think it's important because it's such a big residential area and people might not
01:05know where there is one, but this one's here and anyone can come and get it and it's accessible.
01:12Okay, and Sergio, obviously this defibrillator has been donated to the community by the school.
01:16Just how important is it that we have community accessible defibrillators that people can use?
01:21I think it's really important because ultimately time is so crucial when it comes to somebody
01:25in cardiac arrest.
01:27The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest is one in ten and every chance of surviving drops
01:33by 10% for every minute that passes.
01:35So it's crucial that everybody in the community has full access to a defibrillator in their
01:40local proximity.
01:41It's our goal at Red Sky Foundation to try and get a defibrillator every 500 metres apart.
01:48It's going to be a thankless task and probably something that I'll never be able to achieve,
01:52certainly in the next few years at least.
01:55It's a long-term progress of what we're trying to deliver.
01:59What we are wanting people to do is to visit the Red Sky Foundation website and learn how
02:04to do CPR and also learn how to use a defibrillator.
02:08It's a free 15-minute training video which we've collaborated with the North East Ambulance
02:12Service and we've also collaborated with the school here, Sandhill View, and Mrs Dodd
02:18on the basis that they had a defibrillator sitting in school and we provided the cabinet
02:23to bring it outside so it's available for the wider community to access in a medical
02:27emergency.
02:28And if you do find yourself in a medical emergency situation and need to access a defibrillator,
02:32what should you do?
02:34If you do need to access a defibrillator in a medical emergency, simply follow the chain
02:38of survival which is called 999 straight away and call for help and try and get some
02:42help around you.
02:44You begin CPR on that person and then you'd also have the person that's come to help you
02:49to retrieve the defibrillator.
02:51They would come back and they would apply the pads which is very, very simple to do.
02:55The defibrillator tells you everything.
02:56As soon as you turn that on, it instructs you on what to do, how to remove the clothing,
03:01where to put the pads, and obviously just to sit back and wait for it to analyse the
03:05heart rhythm.
03:06And what it's looking for is a regular heart rhythm, something that isn't out of sync and
03:11it's not in a normal sinus rhythm.
03:13And as soon as that's picked up, it'll be delivering the shock on behalf of the patient
03:18and then you can begin the CPR again.
03:20And while this process is going on, remember you've called 999.
03:24They'll stay on the phone with you but most importantly, the ambulance is on its way as
03:28well so hopefully, hopefully by the time you even get to this cabinet, the ambulance has
03:33arrived at the property or the house where the person has gone into a medical emergency.
03:38It literally can be the difference between life and death?
03:41It really, really can.
03:42The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest out of hospital is only 1 in 10.
03:46In fact, it's so much so that the chance of surviving a cardiac arrest is so, so low without
03:52defibrillation.
03:53The chance of surviving is 7% without CPR using a defibrillator.
03:58It goes up to over 75% if you're using a defibrillator as well.
04:02And let's not forget, a cardiac arrest is all to do with the electrical signals inside
04:07of the heart rather than the blockages which will cause a heart attack.
04:11There is a difference.
04:12Cardiac arrest is the medical emergency where people need urgent CPR to rotate and to circulate
04:20that oxygenated blood around the body and most importantly to keep it going to the brain.