Urban Lifesavers

18/02/2025

Are you afraid of using an automated external defibrillator (AED) to save the life of someone in sudden cardia arrest? Watch our short film to bust the myths & fears associated with bystander use of an AED. Peter D Flaherty Cj Fortuna Blake Borcich Damian Cosgriff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7346eDqZBn0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7346eDqZBn0 - a short filme which busts the myths and fears associated with bystanders applying an AED to save the life of so...

18/02/2025

Australia (Victoria) led the world with the introduction of seat belts in cars in order to save lives!! How expensive was that exercise & yet now we wouldn't get in a car without a seat belt. Bystander use of defibrillators could SAVE ten times the number of lives that seat belts have saved & we are still talking about it and not doing it i.e. making public access defibrillators compulsory!! It is a no brainer!!

18/02/2025

The South Australian Government has legislated to make AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) mandatory in public places, some workplaces & facilities.

Continue to support our AED petition calling on all Australian State & Territory governments to make public access AEDs as commonplace as fire extinguishers.

You can have your say by supporting the online petition: Shocking Truth: Defibrillator legislation is essential for cardiac arrest survival
https://www.change.org/p/shocking-truth-defibrillator-legislation-is-essential-for-cardiac-arrest-survival?use_react=false

SA Government

Shocking Truth: Defibrillator legislation is essential for cardiac arrest survival

07/10/2024

24 Hour Public Access Defibrillator – Rotary In Action

Club Of Brighton Charitable Foundation, with the assistance of a Rotary District 9800 Foundation Grant, has donated a 24hr Public Access Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Tower outside the new Brighton Life Saving Club & Beach House Café buildings, visible from the bathing boxes and the beach.

This pilot AED installation has been a joint initiative of Rotary Club of Brighton and Brighton Life Saving Club (BLSC) and will be monitored and managed by BLSC members.

When the lifesavers are not on patrol in this highly populated beach precinct, the community project AED will be accessible to the public. Multiple sudden cardiac arrests occur in the Brighton Beach location each year and 24hr access to an AED could undeniably save lives.

On Saturday November 16, 2024 at 11:30am, Rotary Club of Brighton & BLSC will launch the first 24hr Public Access Automated External Defibrillator.

A cordial invitation is extended to community members to attend the launch and learn more about this initiative.

Tours of the new Life Saving pavilion (133 Esplanade, Brighton) will be available on the day and Beach House café will be open for refreshments.

01/10/2024

Installation of 24hr Public Access Defibrillators is a critical stage of progression to raise survival outcomes from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest. The resistance, reservations and fears, espoused by a few, that these life saving devices will be stolen or vandalised is not rational justification for locking the cabinets or not installing them at all.

Accessing locked cabinets creates time critical delays as well as potential injury. The findings of the attached study paper posted by Professor Janet Bray supports the risk of theft or damage as being very low, regardless of whether cabinets are locked or not. Minutes matter to save a life and there should not be unnecessary 'roadblocks' for rescuers.

An initiative sponsored by funds from Rotary Club of Brighton & Rotary DIstrict 9800 has started with a 24hr publicly accessible AED to be installed next week outside the Brighton Life Saving Club, close to the popular tourist attraction, the Brighton Bathing Boxes.
More 24hr AEDs stands outside life saving clubs are in the pipeline.

Not many get stolen and people get hurt in the panic of unlocking them: see our International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) review on the impact… | 14 comments on LinkedIn

01/10/2024

Publicly accessible automated external defibrillators should not be in locked cabinets.

Not many get stolen and people get hurt in the panic of unlocking them: see our International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) review on the impact… | 14 comments on LinkedIn

01/10/2024

Publicly accessible automated external defibrillators should not be in locked cabinets.

Not many get stolen and people get hurt in the panic of unlocking them: see our International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) review on the impact… | 14 comments on LinkedIn

01/10/2024

Not many get stolen and people get hurt in the panic of unlocking them: see our International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) review on the impact… | 14 comments on LinkedIn

20/04/2024

Continue to encourage all Australian State & Territory governments to make public access AED (Automated External Defibrillators) as commonplace as fire extinguishers.

You can have your say by supporting the online petition: Shocking Truth: Defibrillator legislation is essential for cardiac arrest survival
https://www.change.org/p/shocking-truth-defibrillator-legislation-is-essential-for-cardiac-arrest-survival?use_react=false

Shocking Truth: Defibrillator legislation is essential for cardiac arrest survival

20/04/2024

Gradually the 'Back in a Heart Beat' message is spreading and action is growing. The Western Australia Department of Education has mandated that Automated External Defibrillators (AED) must be located in all public schools by end of June 2024. Advocacy continues for legislation by all State & Territory governments to make public access AEDs as commonplace as fire extinguishers.

Articles WA Department of Education Mandate Defibrillators In All Public Schools