A cardiac arrest is a catastrophic event which requires immediate CPR by bystanders or family members. A defibrillator close by to where people live is as an essential aid to the chain of survival.
About Beating Hearts
Having a Defibrillator/AED within easy reach of your home could save YOUR life or the life of someone you love!
Beating Hearts was founded by Chris Daly, Myrtle McElwee, Claire Hopkins and Caroline Mooney, a group of like-minded volunteers devoted to saving lives in their own community. Originally members of a community first response organisation, they want to highlight the gap in the provision of AED/Defibrillators in neighbourhoods or residential areas.
They timed how long it would take to get from several housing estates to the nearest defibrillator in a public street in their home town of Wicklow and discovered it would take at a minimum 8 minutes without traffic! This is too long.
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Cardiac Arrests are TIME SENSITIVE.
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Ideally a defibrillator should be deployed within 3 minutes following the commencement of CPR.
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70% of all non-hospital cardiac arrests in Ireland happen at home and yet there are few, if any, defibrillators in neighbourhoods or residential areas.
The aim of Beating Hearts is to raise awareness of this gap and encourage everyone to advocate for the installation of defibrillators/AEDs in their local area, neighbourhoods etc.
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