Bawtry Community First Responders
We are all volunteers trained in first aid, life support and Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) use. First Responders attend certain 999 calls to provide emergency aid until an ambulance arrives.
The rural areas can challenge the ambulance services to arrive on scene within the critical 8 minutes. The local volunteers know the area very well and often know the patient. When you call for help it helps when a Familiar face comes to the door.
Stop Think
If a Cardiac Arrest happened where you are now - where would the nearest AED be?
If the answer is realistically more than 5 minutes away then you should start an AED or Community Responder programme now.
Would you like to train as a First Responder?
Have you got what it takes?
You can make a valuable contribution to your local community, as well as gaining an extremely useful set of personal skills, by becoming a member of our First Responders Team, and the more Responders we have, the better the cover we can provide for your community.
First aid doesn’t take long to learn and can help to save lives.
WATCH THIS FILM AND TOGETHER WE COULD SAVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE.
THE MOST IMPORTANT TWO MINUTES YOU'LL EVER SEE.
BHF Heart HelpLine
0300 330 3311
Now you have seen the film can you help some one?
Check out the first aid section
"The Resuscitation Council (UK) strongly recommends the implementation of early defibrillation.
Increased provision of early defibrillation through the widespread deployment of AEDs is now considered a realistic strategy for reducing mortality from cardiac arrest due to ischaemic heart disease."
