10,152 people in London suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest between 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019 and London Ambulance Service attempted to resuscitate 4,004 (39.4%) of these patients. Resuscitation efforts were not undertaken for 6,148 (60.6%), with 4,386 of these patients being recognised as deceased on arrival of the ambulance, and the remaining 1,762 had in place a Do Not Attempt Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (DNA-CPR) order, advanced directive or equivalent, or the patient’s death was expected.
Only 64.1% of people received CPR and . 57.1% of people who had an Automated defibrillator used on them survived and were discharged from hospital. The average response time of the ambulance was 7 mins, every 1 min delay in use of the defibrillator and CPR reduces chances of survival by at least 10%.
London Fire Consultants provides training in CPR and Defibrillator as part of our First Aid courses, our clients have included delivery of Resuscitation training to the NHS, Hospitals, GP surgeries and have delivered first aid training to household brands.