date:Mar 10, 2014
ed place more than 10,000 public access defibrillators in UK communities.
BHF say that more than 60,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest outside of hospital every year in the UK. But only one in ten people survive. This is significantly lower than survival rates in other countries where rates of bystander CPR and defibrillation with a public access defibrillator are higher.