More AEDs needed in public spaces to improve heart attack response, says MP

More AEDs needed in public spaces to improve heart attack response, says MP

KUALA LUMPUR: More Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) should be made available in public spaces such as shopping malls and condominiums to improve emergency response to heart attacks. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd

Vital defibrillator in Ballee now accessible 24/7 after councillor’s campaign

In a significant boost to community safety in Ballee, a life-saving defibrillator has been relocated to an external wall of Ballee Community Centre, making it accessible 24 hours a day.

Bystanders can improve cardiac arrest survival. Here's how.

When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her breathing (shallow and erratic). Then she stopped breathing altogether. Realizing that she might be having a cardiac arrest, Clough immediately started doing chest compressions, pressing hard and quickly on the center of her chest, while others nea…