Beating Hearts - Wicklow

Today is World Heart Day❤️

A day to shine the light on the thousands of people and families impacted by heart disease and stroke.

Tonight, buildings across Ireland are lighting up in their honour.

Will you join us and light a candle this World Heart Day?

It can be a tribute to someone you love, a celebration of your own heart health, or personal reason.

World Heart Federation

Saw this post this morning from Greystones CFR and it gladdened my heart to see the message/ awareness for residential defibrillators being highlighted with the stats you all need to see - again. Get in touch with Greystones CFR if you are in the Greystones area, or get in touch with Beating Hearts if you need information or contact details for Community First Responders in your area. Do take action to have a defibrillator installed near to where you live and see if there are any demonstrations or training that your residents groups can attend. Whatever you do, don't be complacent thinking it can never happen to you, or to your family, a cardiac arrest can happen to anyone of any age! For your own safety and that of your family get involved, speak with your neighbours and friends and do whatever it takes to put a Defibrillator close to your home. We hope you'll never need it, but should you need one, it may just help save a life.

🚨 2024 Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Stats Are In 🚨
At our annual responder conference, the numbers were clear:

🇮🇪 2,885 cardiac arrests in Ireland last year where resuscitation was attempted

💔 Survival to hospital discharge still only 8%

🙌 84% received bystander CPR + over 4,000 trained CFRs

👉 Despite all this incredible effort, outcomes remain stubbornly low. Why?
Because the single most effective intervention is early defibrillation.

⚡ AEDs save lives. They should be as common as fire extinguishers.

💶 Cost is no longer a barrier (units under €1000).
🛰 With GPS tracking, automated self-checks & instant alerts, AEDs have never been smarter or easier to maintain.

❓Most arrests happen in the home. Is it time to rethink access to AEDs in every community?

Get in touch with me/Greystones Community First Responders to discuss our minutes matter campaign and how we can work together to install AEDs throughout Greystones and surrounding areas.

Congratulations to Greystones on installing your first residential defibrillator and on your campaign to install residential defibrillators in all estates in Greystones. Great to see that another town is following the lead of Wicklow Town who now have over 20 residential defibrillators - which provide vital emergency equipment to residents in the event of a catastrophic cardiac arrest in their communities. To all other towns in Ireland, get organised and do the same for yourselves. Why? Over 72% of ALL cardiac arrests outside of hospitals happen in the HOME. 72%. That's huge! So do what's necessary to protect yourselves so that there is easy access to a community defibrillator within 3 minutes of your homes and learn CPR. Also - ANYONE can use a Defibrillator- it prompts you. Follow the lead set by Beating Hearts Wicklow who got the ball rolling in Wicklow Town and now by Greystones and post your news here so we can encourage every town in Ireland to install residential defibrillators. Well done Greystones.

The Greystones Guide | The Matter Of The Heart Bringing an AED to every Greystones estate…