Nassington Defibrillators Newsletter Dec 2020
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Thanks For Supporting Us Building A Heart Safe Community December 2020 NASSINGTON BUILDING A HEART SAFE COMMUNITY Awareness | Training | Defibrillator Network @NDefibrillators This is For All of Us Great News !! We know that these are challenging times and that you have many other things to think about but we need your ongoing help to raise the funds needed to build a network of community defibrillators that gives everyone in Nassington the best opportunity to survive a cardiac arrest. This is a vital part of building a ‘Heart Safe Community’. Fundraising Update Together We Are Fundraising is going well. We’ve Making A Diference made a fantastic start but we have more to do if everyone in our village is to be given equal access Reading our newsletter & to a potentially life-saving knowing what to do, could save a defibrillator. We’re determined that no part of our community life ... should be left out so make a plea Thanks to everyone’s generous help so far, we’ve for your help no matter how big or exciting news. Our network of life saving small defibrillators is growing as promised. Fundraising For Next Since the end of July we have added new defibrillators to the Locations Now one already at the Village Hall. More will follow as soon as funds are raised. The network so far includes defibrillators at: • Woodnewton Road - Homefield, Prebendal Close, Westmorland • The Village Hall, Church Street On wall to front right. Close. • 27 Station Road a On left hand side of house by driveway. • Cricket Club / Nassington Pre- b School, Parkway, Mill Road, • Frog Hall Annex Northfield Lane/Eastfield Crescent Fotheringhay Road & others. • 52 / 50 Church Street bWall to left of Elsie’s Tea Shop This is a community wide effort, • Telephone Box b Junction of Apethorpe Road / The Drove where every donation helps the entire community & no part will be • R.J. Sutton Engineering c On wall to right of door to left out. So people from around reception, New Sulehay Workshops, Apethorpe Road. the village will be contributing to the one nearest to you. All defibrillators are ‘rescue ready’ and marked in multiple Put simply we need donations to places with SmartWater ® for security purposes. Let’s continue building our network to keep them safe as they need to be ‘rescue ready’ for provide the coverage we are immediate use. aiming for. Thanks For Supporting Us Building A Heart Safe Community December 2020 Thanks to home / business ‘Defibrillator hosts’ for caring for our community; and all who live, work & visit Nassington. A big shout out too for Duncan De Salis a , Steve Rudkin Electrical Contractors b from Stamford & Russell Baxter c who helped install them. Looking ahead ...... we want to be the best Don’t compare what we are doing to anywhere else because it Interesting Facts will be unique and groundbreaking. We hope that you will see this as our work progresses. With your help, our community • Our main ambulance service is can offer the best possible chance of surviving a cardiac arrest. East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) but because we live near its Please don’t think just because you can see the number of boundary they are frequently defibrillators increasing or have one near you that the job’s assisted by East of England done; it’s not. It’s important to remember that until we have a Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST). complete network of defibrillators we will still have parts of our community where the retrieval time is too long. If you • Our local volunteer Community Responder Group is Oundle struggle with the idea there’s a simple test. Remember that a Community First Responders defibrillator needs to be attached to a victim of cardiac arrest www.ocfr.co.uk - a registered as quickly as possible but hopefully within 2-3 minutes, from charity. Great news! We have found their heart stopping. Time yourself ... Go from where you four people in Nassington who live / where you are to the nearest defibrillator and back would like to train as volunteers. It stopping for a moment to call 999 and to open the cabinet. costs around £3,000 to equip each Remember, it could be anytime night or day or in any volunteer. You can support them weather. If your return journey is more than 2-3 minutes the through purchases at Amazon likelihood of a successful outcome is drastically reduced. Smile. • 999 Calls to victims of cardiac It’s because of this we’re working in other parts of our arrest are categorised as life- community to prepare for future installations so that we can threatening and given the highest reduce travel times. We want installations to take place as priority. quickly as we can raise the funds to meet the costs of equipment. You can be sure we’ll keep going until everyone • Although our ambulance service has equal access to a potentially life-saving defibrillator & the aims to achieve time 7 minute best chance of survival. response time target for life- threatening calls the location of To keep you informed, we’ll distribute details of new Nassington & pressure on services installations as soon as defibrillators “go live”. We encourage means it could be much longer. 20 you to keep abreast of developments and keep a note of minutes or more would not be unheard of. This makes what we are where your nearest & other defibrillators are located. It’s doing even more important. important to know which direction you will go in, as in an emergency there’s no time to waste. • By working together we really can increase the chance of We would like to see the next defibrillators serving homes survival, help improve the along the Woodnewton Road (including Homefield, outcome & recovery for victims of Prebendal Close & Westmorland Drive) & Pitch side at the cardiac arrest. Cricket Club / Nassington Pre-School, Play Area and future Outside Gym. We can make this happen with your help. Thanks For Supporting Us Building A Heart Safe Community December 2020 How can you help? We are building a Please make a donation. ‘Heart Safe Community’ Help Raise Awareness Building the ‘Heart Safe Community’ will take time and • Learn the difference between cardiac require three key elements to be tackled simultaneously as arrest & heart attack shown in the pie chart below � . • Recognise that you need to act quickly • Talk about this Participate in Training • Email us to put your name on our list for a place on one of our training sessions. • Join a training session / have a refresher once a year. • Encourage family, friends & neighbours to join you, even if from an adjoining village. By addressing each of these areas we can give any victim of Support our network of cardiac arrest in our community the very best chance of Defibrillators survival; pending the arrival of a Community First Responder / Ambulance. • Make a note of where all our defibrillators are. In addition to making a donation, you can help to continue the journey we’ve started by read and sharing information like • Keep an eye on them and help this, encouraging others to talk about what we’re doing and protect them from harm as they must joining one of the FREE training events that will be taking be ‘rescue ready’ at all times. place as soon as the restrictions placed on us by the • Make the Community First COVID-19 pandemic are removed. Responder’s who will visit them on a We want this to have a long term, permanent impact for regular basis to check them and if everyone and truly believe ours can be a ‘Heart Safe needed arrange maintenance Community’ if we are willing to help each other. welcome. They will always be in We need to raise awareness of the di fference between; uniform & be carrying ID. CARDIAC ARREST and HEART ATTACK. BOTH • Make a donation to our fundraising. ARE LIFE-THREATENING. We’ll explain the Big or small every single donation difference now but in either case CALL 999 makes a difference. Ultimately it’s the IMMEDIATELY. cost of a life we’re trying to save. It’s important to understand the differences and to know the Can you help set up a website, print or signs to look out for; and what to do in either case as produce our newsletters. Please there’s not a second to lose. contact us if you would like to help us Immediate action really can make a huge diference to in this or any other way. the outcome ...... the diference between life and death. Survival is the first priority but that’s followed quickly by Thanks For Supporting Us Building A Heart Safe Community December 2020 Serious Stuff quality of outcome and speed of recovery. In a nutshell ‘WE REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE’ if we act Blood Pressure quickly. Blood pressure is a measure of force Key Information Alert that your heart uses to pump blood around your body. It’s measure in Cardiac Arrest millimetres of mercury (mmHg) and is given as 2 figures. Cardiac Arrest is when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood around your body. When your heart stops pumping • Systolic pressure - the pressure blood, your brain is starved of oxygen. This causes you to fall when your heart pushes blood out. unconscious and stop breathing. • Diastolic pressure - the pressure What are the signs of a cardiac arrest? when your heart rests between A victim will be: beats. • Unconscious For example, if your blood pressure is • Unresponsive - and “140 over 90” or 140/90mmHg, it means you have a Systolic pressure of • Won’t be breathing or breathing normally - not breathing 140 and a Diastolic pressure of normally may mean the victim’s making gasping noises.