Citizen CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) The Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council, in an effort to encourage bystander CPR or CPR by untrained persons, where a person had collapsed, ran a Television Advertising campaign to promote Citizen CPR. Please see below.   If an adult has suddenly collapsed, is not breathing normally and is unresponsive, they maybe in Cardiac Arrest. There is no time to lose. Even if you are untrained your actions can help. There are two simple actions that you can do to help save their life. Call 999 Push hard and fast in the centre of their chest about 100 – 120 times per minute until the ambulance service arrives. http://www.citizencpr.ie/ Vinnie Jones Hands-only CPR training film The British Heart Fountation teamed up with Vinnie Jones to help thousands of people across the UK survive a cardiac arrest. Now the result has ‘gone viral’, with 2 million people watching Vinnie’s training film online. The film features Vinnie Jones explaining how to give Hands-only CPR to the beat of the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive. It’s backed up by a shorter TV ad and has prompted thousands of people to download alife-saving mobile app and buy limited-edition t-shirts. We already know of at least 25 people who have remembered the campaign and acted on it. When one patient arrived in hospital, the doctor took one look and said, “You’ve been Vinnie’d.”...

There is a Model Exhibition in Colaiste Bhride Carnew on Sunday, February 3rd, from 11am until 4pm in Aid of Carnew First Responders, who are currently fundraising to place a Public Access Defibrillator in the village. Please come along and support.

Please follow the below links;   SN201218_DefibtechAEDs Advisory Notice SN201218_DefibtechAEDs Field Safety Notice      

Knockananna Community First Responders are holding a Fundraising Evening on Saturday the 22nd of December 2012 in the Wagon Wheels, Knockananna, Co. Wicklow. Come along and support. Six volunteers from the Knockananna area, trained as Cardiac First Rseponder last October and the Group are fundraising for a  Automated External Defbrillator and training equipment.  Knockananna Community First Responders are Wicklow Cardiac first Responders newest Group and hope to go on call in the Spring of...

As of today, 4th December 2012, Groups within Wicklow Cardiac First Responders can now apply to the National Ambulance Service to be considered as Community First Responder Schemes-Enhanced and will be dispatched to Cardiac Arrest, Choking, Chest Pain and Stroke Emergency calls. A number of Community First Responder Groups applied today and the remaining CFR  Groups will be applying over the coming weeks.