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First Aid Training
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With 12 people under the age of 35 dying each week in the UK due to sudden cardiac arrest*, it is vitally important that as many people as possible know how to carry out CPR and use a defibrillator.
Learn how to carry out CPR, and use a difibrilator and YOU could make a difference.
On 17 March 2012, Fabrice Muamba (23) collapsed during the first half of an FA Cup
quarter-final match between Bolton and Tottenham Hotspur.
Muamba had had a cardiac arrest.
Bolton's club doctor later confirmed that Muamba had received numerous
defibrillator shocks both on the pitch and in the ambulance.
Two weeks later Mwumba was photgraphed sitting up in bed and smiling.
On 12 June 2021 Football fans watched in horror when Danish Striker Christian Eriksen (29) collapsed on the pitch, during a European Championship game against Finland.
Eriksen had also suffered a cardiac arrest.
Eriksen's life was saved by the rapid medical treatment he received. A combination of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and a defibrillator meant he was conscious by the time he was carried off the pitch.
He made a complete recovery thanks to the rapid intervention of all who helped that day.
These are two high profile cases where CPR and defibillation was given to victims of a cardiac arrest at the very earliest opportunity. It is this intervention that helped saved their lives.
This does not minimise the fact that every day someone who is known and loved by someone, suffers the same condition and may need rapid intervention.
YOU could be the person who is able to intervene and help save that life.
It is important to note that CPR and the use of a difibrillator does NOT guarantee that someone will recover, but it IS a guarantee that if no one does anything at all, they will NOT recover.