This video presents “Councillor Anthony Perruzza tries an AED (Automated External Defibrillator).”
- Toronto City Councillor for Ward 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Anthony Perruzza- partners with Toronto Paramedics (Toronto EMS) bringing awareness to AEDs & CPR…
- “AEDs are easy to use.”
February is Heart Month, and Toronto paramedics and emergency medical dispatchers are encouraging Toronto residents to help a paramedic save a life.
- Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has prepared a series of public service announcements to point out how bystanders can get involved in helping others.
Toronto EMS Paramedics to Host Heart Month Event at City Hall
Thursday, February 27
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. – photo opportunity
Rotunda, Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- On the last day of Heart Month, City staff and elected officials, as well as visitors to City Hall, can learn three simple steps to help a paramedic save a life.
- Toronto Emergency Medical Services’ Deputy Chief Frank Hurlehey and paramedics will demonstrate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED).
- They will offer one-on-one, hands-on instruction.
Toronto EMS’s Safe City Program oversees over 1,400 AEDs in public places across Toronto.
- Since it’s launch in 1997, the Toronto EMS Cardiac Safe City Program, has been committed to saving lives by supporting and implementing public access defibrillation programs.
- Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) kills over 30,000 Canadians each year.
- Approximately 20% of these SCA incidents occur in public places.
- The current national survival rate from SCA is less than 5%: Time is of the essence for SCA victims.
- Currently in Toronto, emergency services can on average, provide defibrillation to SCA victim’s in just 8.1 minutes – a great response time.
- Despite our paramedics’ and firefighters’ best efforts, only 2.5% of SCA victims in Toronto survive.
- For each minute that passes when SCA strikes, the victim loses up to 10% chance of survival.
- You can help save lives.
- Public access defibrillation programs, when properly set-up and maintained are able to deliver the first shock from an automated external defibrillator (AED) to the SCA victim within just 3 minutes.
- This quick response by trained responders or a Good Samaritan gives the victim a 70% chance of survival!
- In 2013, 11 people in Toronto were resuscitated by bystanders who intervened to help someone by performing CPR or by using an AED.
- Some of the people they helped had their pulse back before the paramedics arrived.
- In 2013, 11 people in Toronto were resuscitated by bystanders who intervened to help someone by performing CPR or by using an AED.
- There are now over 450 city owned AEDs at sites with multiple Targeted Responders certified through Toronto EMS.
- Medical oversight for the program is by Dr Marty Freidburg.
Contact Info:
Call the Cardiac Safe City program anytime to discuss all aspects of your public access defibrillation program and to arrange for a comprehensive site assessment and Targeted AED Site Responder training.
Phone: 1-877-233-2489
Fax: 416-392-3492
Web: www.cardiacsafecity.org
Email: cardiacsafecity@toronto.ca
Commander Gayle Pollock: 416-338-0475
Email: gpolloc@toronto.ca
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