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Lifesaving defibrillators should be as ?ubiquitous? as fire extinguishers, doctors have said, after research in the UK revealed that the machines were on-hand in public spaces for just four per cent of heart attacks.
The machines, which work by giving an electric shock to the heart to restore its rhythm, are now kept in most shopping centres as well as in some train stations, community centres and other public places.
However, in a study which looked at all calls to an ambulance for heart attacks in one English county in a single year, researchers found that, out of 1,035 calls, the caller could access a defibrillator in only 44 cases.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...s-fire-extinguishers-doctors-say-9139982.html
The machines, which work by giving an electric shock to the heart to restore its rhythm, are now kept in most shopping centres as well as in some train stations, community centres and other public places.
However, in a study which looked at all calls to an ambulance for heart attacks in one English county in a single year, researchers found that, out of 1,035 calls, the caller could access a defibrillator in only 44 cases.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...s-fire-extinguishers-doctors-say-9139982.html