defibs for the office

Unfortunately we spend way too many hours at work, often performing very stressful jobs.

The most valuable asset your business has is it's staff. We all know it and here's an opportunity to look after them.

Protect your staff by being able to recognise and manage medical emergencies within the workplace from as little as £1 per day! with defibshop finance options.

With stress, obesity and heart disease on the increase the risks of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) aren't going to go away anytime soon.

Having a defibrillator available in your office increases the chance of survival for a victim of cardiac arrest nine fold. For every minute that goes by without a life saving defibrillation shock their chance of survival drops by about 10%. It's no use relying on our overstretched emergency services alone, very often they simply arrive too late to save someone who could have been saved if a defibrillator had been present.

Defibrillation is now a recognised extension of First Aid and Basic Life Support and most of our defibrillators are designed to be used by lay people with little or no first aid training.

The UK Resuscitation Council state that "the wide availability for lay use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that deliver a shock to reverse ventricular fibrillation (the most common form of cardiac arrest) and thus allow effective cardiac rhythm to be reestablished. This is most likely to be successful when given very soon after the onset. Optimal conditions for defibrillation are present for only 1-2 minutes with success rates decreasing thereafter at up to 20% per minute of delay.

AEDs can be used safely even by untrained laypeople who witness an arrest or who are nearby and can respond more quickly than the ambulance service. The minutes saved are crucial and the strategy has been responsible for saving many lives." So there you go a great reason to have a defibrillator in your office.