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LINCOLNSHIRE INTEGRATED VOLUNTARY EMERGENCY SERVICE |
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Every year there are 1,000 deaths from heart attack in Lincolnshire. Current survival rate is just 4 percent! Early defibrillation can raise the survival rate to 30 percent! HEART ATTACK VICTIMS MUST BE ATTENDED and DEFIBRILLATION COMMENCED WITHIN EIGHT MINUTES. Because Lincolnshire is a rural county few ambulances are within eight minutes of a victim. L.I.V.E.S. FIRST RESPONDERS CAN BE DESPATCHED BY THE AMBULANCE CONTROL ROOM TO COMMENCE TREATMENT WHILE THE PARAMEDICS ARE ON THEIR WAY |
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CAISTOR FIRST RESPONDER SCHEME Urgently need
more volunteers Chairman:- Ian Dawson 01472
851174 Treasurer
- Dr Geoff Wood, Caistor Surgery 01472 851203 Co-ordinator - Brian Jollands 01472
851582 brian.jollands@virgin.net Secretary
- Carol McKenzie 01472 859047 kev8cazmac@aol.com
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Meetings are held on the second
Tuesday of every month in the Caistor Arts Centre commencing at 7.30 pm.
New members are needed urgently to keep the scheme operating in
Caistor. Anyone is welcome to come along to a meeting to find out more
about the scheme. People can give as much time / help as they wish,
even if it is only a couple of hours a month. Full training will be
given by Lives Paramedics, at no cost to the individual. Members are now also
trained in oxygen administration. |
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L.I.V.E.S FIRST RESPONDERS are
trained by Lincolnshire Ambulance Service and are now part of Lincolnshire’s
emergency medical team. Volunteers are trained, assessed and examined
(written & practical) in key elements of life saving, scene assessment,
patient assessment, mouth to mouth, CPR and use of the fully automatic
external defibrillator and heart monitor. The automatic defibrillator and
heart monitor makes it impossible to deliver a shock to a healthy heart. |
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Want to set up a scheme in your town or village |
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