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 defbrillators 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 defbrillator. 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 defbrillators is growing as promised.

Fundraising For Next Since the end of July we have added new defbrillators to the Locations Now one already at the Village Hall. More will follow as soon as funds are raised. The network so far includes defbrillators at: • Woodnewton Road - Homefeld, 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 Northfeld Lane/Eastfeld 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 defbrillators 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 ‘Defbrillator 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 ofer the best possible chance of surviving a cardiac arrest. 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 defbrillators increasing or have one near you that the job’s assisted by East of done; it’s not. It’s important to remember that until we have a Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST). complete network of defbrillators 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 defbrillator 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 defbrillator 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 defbrillator & 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 defbrillators “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 defbrillators 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 defbrillators serving homes survival, help improve the along the Woodnewton Road (including Homefeld, 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 diference 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 Defbrillators survival; pending the arrival of a Community First Responder / Ambulance. • Make a note of where all our defbrillators 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 ference 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 diference. Ultimately it’s the IMMEDIATELY. cost of a life we’re trying to save. It’s important to understand the diferences 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 frst 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 fgures. 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. 90mmHg. Without immediate treatment or medical attention, the person will die. If you see someone having a cardiac arrest, As a general guide: call 999 immediately, start CPR & send someone for a • Ideal blood pressure is considered defbrillator if there’s one nearby. to be between 90/60mmHg and Do not stop CPR unless: 120/80mmHg • A doctor, paramedic or emergency medical provider tells • High blood pressure is considered you to be 140mmHg of higher • You become exhausted & cannot continue • Low blood pressure is considered • The patient regains consciousness to be 90/60mmHg or lower Facts: Source and further advice from the *Immediate initiation of bystander CPR can double or NHS can be found at https:// quadruple survival from out of hospital cardiac arrest. www.nhs.uk/common-health- *Defbrillation - Fewer that 2% of victims have access to an questions/lifestyle/what-is-blood- AED before the ambulance arrives. Each minute of delay pressure/ reduces the probability of survival to hospital discharge by 10%. Defbrillation with 3-5 mins of collapse can produce Defibrillators are for life, survival rates as high as 50-70%. not just Christmas Heart Attack Why not consider making a Not to be confused with Cardiac Arrest donation to our fundraising for Symptoms of a heart attack can include: Christmas. What could be better than knowing that your help • Chest Pain - the chest can feel like it's being pressed or might mean that someone in our squeezed by a heavy object, and pain can radiate from the chest to the jaw, neck, arms and back. community enjoys many more Christmas’s with their family. • Shortness of Breath

Thanks For Supporting Us Building A Heart Safe Community December 2020

Jargon Buster • Feeling weak or lightheaded, or both • An overwhelming feeling of anxiety Defbrillator - a device used to restart a heart by giving an electric It's important to know that not everyone experiences severe shock to the chest wall or heart. chest pain. This is particularly the case with many women. The pain can often be mild and mistaken for indigestion. AED - Automated External Defbrillator (see above), a portable It's the combination of symptoms that's important in device that’s designed to be used by determining whether a person is having a heart attack and not people without clinical training. the severity of chest pain.

Cardiac Arrest - a life-threatening In summary, it’s important to know: emergency where the heart stops • The diference between cardiac arrest & heart attack. pumping blood around the body. Call • It’s vital to act quickly and call 999 in either case. 999, Start CPR, use an AED. • That in the event of cardiac arrest you must start CPR Heart Attack - a serious medical immediately and use a defbrillator if there is one. emergency in which the supply of • You will never be criticised for calling 999 if it turns out to blood to the heart is suddenly be something else. blocked, usually by a blood clot. Call 999. • The speed of your action can save a life.

CPR - short for CardioPulmonary • The Ambulance Service Call Taker will always stay on the Resuscitation. A technique for line with you and talk you through what you need to do. reviving someone whose heart has Talking About Defbrilators stopped beating by pressing on their chest and breathing into their mouth. What is a Defbrilator & what do they do? Fun Fact Defbrillators or Automated External Defbrillators are more commonly referred to as simply AED’s or ‘Defb’. Whatever Nellie The Elephant & the the case they are the same thing. AED’s are very easy to use Bee Gees save lives! and don’t require users to have any training.

Did you know that CPR should be What type of defbrilators are in performed to the rate of 100 - 120 Nassington? beats per minute. Our defbrillators ‘semi-automated’. These defbrillators can An easy way to deliver the required be used without training. Simply open the lid and follow the help is to do it to the tune of ‘Nellie automated voice commands. They will tell you exactly what to the Elephant’ or ‘Stayin’ Alive’ by the do, & when to do it. You can’t make a mistake or cause harm. Bee Gee’s. Why do we need defbrilators? Ah ah ah ah, Stayin’ Alive, Stayin’ Alive. Because cardiac arrest is life-threatening & victims need Ah, ah, ah, ah Stayin’ Ali i i i ve immediate help. Without it death is inevitable. Where do we need defbrilators?

The closer a defbrillator the better the chance of survival. So our aim’s for all homes, business premises, play areas to be

Thanks For Supporting Us Building A Heart Safe Community December 2020

Appreciation within 100 - 200 metres of one. We’ve raise our aspirations because we feel we can achieve a better outcome than we The number we need to thank is originally planned. growing all the time. How many defbrilators do we need? In time we will produce a defnitive list We know it’s a tough target but whatever it takes to achieve a of contributors but only if they are complete network and optimise access times. Our aim for happy to be named. Whether donors choose to be name or not each and now is 16. every one is appreciated. What about our defbrilators in the long Without their generosity, community term? spiritedness and compassion for others (all of us) what’s happening When completed we believe the network should a community here would not be possible. asset, belonging to, cared for, maintained and developed by all of us, for all of us. Donations & contributions come in many ways. Those that enable us to What about regular maintenance of our fund equipment big or small are absolutely vital, but so are the less defbrilators? obvious & those that appear in kind. Oundle Community First Responders - our local CFR group

Numerous people have been have kindly ofered to carry our regular maintenance checks enablers - they include homeowners on our defbrillators. They will be checking equipment who are hosting defbrillators on their including batteries and pads every week to make sure they are property & meet the cost of electricity, always ‘rescue ready’. We encourage you to support them as a the Parish Council who enabled use of group www.eastamb.nhs.uk the phone box, Western Power for their advice, Steve Rudkin Electrical With your help, support and participation we can Services for their advice & improve the chance of survival from out of hospital installations. Nassington Pre-School, cardiac arrest in our community. We can do that by The Queens Head & Village Hall who raising awareness, providing opportunities for have offered space for training when training; and through a network of defbrillators. it’s safe. Julie Germany for assisting with the phone box. Todd Griffn at This is for each & every one of us in Nassington. TAG Signage Graffx for his incredible Please donate to our fundraising. and ongoing help. East Midlands and You can donate by BACS to ‘Heart to Heart Norfolk’ - East of England Ambulance services, reference NASSINGTON (email us for details) Oundle Community First Responders, colleagues at East or by forwarding a cheque to us payable to ‘Heart 2 Heart Norfolk’ marked NASSINGTON on the back. Council and Cardiac Science now Zoll. We would welcome support, feedback or ideas We are working on some ideas that if Russell & Karen [email protected] they come to fruition will be groundbreaking. To achieve these we Next time: Network update, Ayrrhymia, CPR - Resuscitation need people who are innovative, guidance for mere mortals, Great signage & What3Words. open minded and willing to consider novel ideas. Watch this space! We wish everyone a Happy Christmas

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