Why is AED training important?
Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are used to treat sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). A sudden cardiac arrest is when the victim’s heart stopsbeating,theywill collapse, lose consciousness, and will stopbreathing.
SCAs strike without warning and leave the victim in need of urgent medical intervention. The use of an AED can improve survival rates by 50 to 75%, combined with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and using an AED gives an unresponsive person, who is not breathing, the best possible chance of survival.
New portable AEDscan now be found in prominent places such as leisure centres, post offices, schools, community centres, and even converted telephone boxes, to enable people to respond in an SCA medical emergency. The use of AEDs has a dramatic effect in strengthening the chain of s...










