Eastwood Town Council have had a new Defibrillator Cabinet installed to house both a Defibrillator and a Bleed Control Kit.
An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is a portable life saving device that can give a casualty’s heart an electric shock, when it has stopped beating normally in a sudden cardiac arrest. A defibrillator works by checking the casualty’s heart rhythm once the defibrillator pads are placed on their chest and giving them a shock if needed. By using a defibrillator before an ambulance arrives, you can significantly increase someone’s chance of survival.
The Bleed Control Kit is designed to help control and stop severe bleeding. It acts as a haemorrhage control kit and catastrophic bleed kit to ensure those who are first on the scene of an accident or an injury can treat the blood loss and keep it under control until medical help arrives. Being able to control the blood loss before the paramedics are on the scene could be the difference between life and death.
The Council have purchased the Cabinet from Turtle Engineering who support the wonderful work of the Daniel Baird Foundation by donating £5 from every emergency bleed control kit and £10 from every bleed control cabinet. Daniel Baird (26 years old) was fatally stabbed in the early hours of 8th July 2017, in Birmingham following a night out with friends. There was no first aid or bleeding control kit available. Dan died shortly after arriving at hospital due to catastrophic bleeding. There are many other ways for a catastrophic bleed to occur, such as from a car accident or a work related injury. The Daniel Baird Foundation charity aims to raise awareness of the importance of having publicly accessibl
e bleeding control packs available.
The New Cabinet is located outside of the Eastwood Town Council gates, and near the Eastwood Police Station on the corner of Nottingham Road and Queens Road North (What3Words location: blog.compound.quicksand)
