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October 2015 on the introduction of two new defibrillators being placed around Seville and Wandin. After hearing about the Wandin defibrillators, Mr Welsh said it made sense to make them available in Mt Evelyn. “It’s really about raising awareness - because if people don’t know where they are they can’t use them,” he said. He said there hadn’t been any specific cases he knew of that made the cardiac arrest awareness closer to home, but said it was good for the community. Mr Welsh said at a defibrillator train-
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“It has instructions and tells you what to do as you’re helping the victim - whether to step back or do something else. “It’s quite unbelievable.” He said the first thing to do before accessing the defibrillator was to call triple-zero. “Basically any person can use them,” Mr Welsh said. “They may not be confident, but they can use them - it’s very userfriendly.” For more information, visit www. nhw.com.au/Eastern-Region/YarraRanges/Local-Areas
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ing day in February, he was told some alarming statistics by the instructor. “The man who conducted the training said without early defibrillation, only about five per cent of people in cardiac arrest will pull through,” Mr Welsh said. “But it rises to 70 per cent with the use of a defibrillator.” If someone is in cardiac arrest, Mr Welsh said a person could simply look at the poster and see they need to go to either the pharmacy or the IGA to access the defibrillators. “From then, they take the defibrillator to the victim,” Mr Welsh said.
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POSTERS have been placed throughout Mt Evelyn trader windows to display the whereabouts of defibrillators for cardiac arrest emergencies. As part of Mt Evelyn Neighbourhood Watch Week on 3-9 October, posters will be distributed in shop windows in Mount Evelyn. The posters are bright green with a red heart in the centre, followed by instructions on where to locate the defibrillators. The two External Automated Defibrillators are located at the Mt Evelyn
Pharmacy, and the Mt Evelyn IGA. Chairman of the Mt Evelyn Neighbourhood Watch Committee, Geoff Welsh said putting posters around town was important when someone was in need of help while in cardiac arrest. “If someone needs help, having them (the defibrillators) is one thing, but knowing where to go is another,” Mr Welsh said. “How else would you know where they are otherwise?” Mr Welsh said the committee had been working on the posters for the past six months. The Mail Newspaper reported in
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