Bransgore & District Community First Responders
Registered Charity No: 1049778-1Bransgore, in the New Forest, Hampshire, England
Early Access, Early Resuscitation, Early Defibrillation,
Early Advanced Life Support
Early Access - means to get help and to alert the emergency services immediately without delay.
Early Resuscitation means to buy time, - CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) is conducted as soon as possible with the aim of pumping oxygenated blood around the body to give a casualty the best chance of survival.
Early Defibrillation means to restart the heart, - In some cases the heart can be shocked back into rhythm which again means the chances of survival increase, and finally
Early Life Support, meaning to stabilise the casualty - getting them to the medical professionals as soon as practicable.
When this chain was put into practice in America by increasing public awareness, training people in basic life support and placing defibrillators in the community it improved the pre-hospital survival rate to between 25% and 30%. There is also evidence to suggest that in cases of cardiac arrest, for every minute that goes by without defibrillation a patient's chances of survival decrease by 10%. By developing groups of Community Responders who are trained to provide the first three events in this chain, there should be a significant improvement in the survival rates in cases of cardiac arrest.
