WHY & HOW WE DO IT

HAJMT WANTS TO PREVENT LIVES BEING LOST BECAUSE IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO AN AED IS NOT AVAILABLE IN A COMMUNITY.

When someone has a cardiac arrest simply waiting for the ambulance services to arrive means that many lives are lost that could be saved.

More specialist equipment available in the community will help raise awareness and facilitate greater response rates from the public. By knowing the location of the nearest public access defibrillator we can all give a person suffering a cardiac arrest the best possible chance of survival.

OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST (OHCA)

 

    • There are more than 30,000 cardiac arrests in the UK each year.
    • Overall survival rate is just 1 in 10.
    • Every minute without CPR and defibrillation reduce’s a victim’s survival rate by 7 – 10%
    • If an AED is used within 3-5 minutes of cardiac arrest survival rates will jump from 6% to 74%.

 

The Chain of Survival is a sequence of steps that together maximise the chance of survival following cardiac arrest. See Below.

 

 

 

OUR MISSION IS SIMPLE

We aim to buy as many AEDs as possible and install them in deserving communities around the West Midlands and beyond. Whether your community is in a town centre, a rural village, a local shop or post office or an area where many people walk, we are interested. The application criteria is straight forward.

 

1. Tell us why you feel your community would benefit from an HAJMT AED.

 

2. Can you commit to keeping the AED properly maintained and in working order.

 

3. It must be for public access and registered with the Circuit, the National defibrillator network.

 

4. You must ensure that you have a Caretaker for the AED.

 

Every application will be considered on its own merit but please understand that we have limited funds and therefore not every request will be successful.

 

We will do our very best to help out your community.

Sally Angell-James with West Midlands Amubulance Service’s Cliff Medlicott and Rev Yejide Peters of St Alkmunds Church launching the charity in Shrewsbury.

Public Access AEDs need to be registered on The Circuit – The National Defibrillator Network.

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