West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) teamed up with the OurJay Foundation to Install OurJay’s 155th AED (defibrillator) outside of Paddox Cycles shop, in Rugby. AEDs are pieces of equipment used to restart the heart, in a cardiac arrest incident.
Read More “LIFESAVING AED INSTALLED DURING OUR ‘LET US SEE YOUR AED’ CAMPAIGN”
For Peter Corr, the 12th of September 2019 started like any other day, however, during an early morning run Peter suffered an out of hospital cardiac arrest, that statistically should have ended his life.
However, thanks to the swift actions of Melissa Williams, 4 and a half years on, Peter and Melissa have been able to recount what they call ‘that day’ in Peter’s family home, which he shares with his wife and three children, in Telford.
Read More “Melissa Has Given Me the Gift of ‘Life Part Two’”
West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) proudly launches social media campaign ‘Let Us See Your AED’ to encourage the registration of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), also known as Defibrillators, on the British Heart Foundation’s ‘The Circuit’. AEDs are life-saving pieces of equipment used to shock a cardiac arrest patient’s heart.
Read More “Over 2700 AEDs in the West Midlands Not Registered on The Circuit”
Telford Community First Responder (CFR) Becky has taken on the challenge of a cold water swim every day in February to raise money for the Telford Community First Responders Scheme.
After smashing her original target of £500, Becky is now hoping to raise a total of £1000 for the scheme as she battles water temperatures below 10c.
Community First Responders volunteer their time to support WMAS crews by responding to the most critically ill patients in order to provide life-saving medical aid, in often time critical situations. CFR Schemes are entirely self-funded and rely on donations for the community in order to operate.
Read More “Community First Responder Becky’s Cold-Water Challenge”
You just never know what the day will bring! It’s a comment that you would hear from any ambulance crew, but now the public will get to see just what our staff face with the new series of “999: On the Frontline” set to hit our TV screens.
The programme, which returns for it’s tenth series, follows crews from West Midlands Ambulance Service as they race to save lives and help people in their hour of need.
Nearly 70% of cardiac arrests happen within 500 meters of a school and there is a requirement for all state schools to have access to a Defibrillator, but what happens when the school is closed and access to the defibrillator becomes limited?
Paramedic, Alice Jones alongside charity OurJay Foundation made it their mission to place a brand-new Defibrillator in Walsall at Walsall Academy on Thursday (7th December) on the outside of the school making the Defibrillator accessible all year round, day and night.
Read More “Lifesaving defibrillator installed outside Walsall Academy”
