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999 Call madeEmergency Medical Dispatchers priortise a call as life threatening and dispatch emergency resources
CFR on sceneCommunity First Responders arrive on scene and provide immediate life support to the patient and reassurance to the family
Ambulance arrivalAn ambulance crew or Rapid Response Paramedic arrives and takes over care of the patient.
First Responder volunteers are alerted by the ambulance service to attend patients with breathing difficulties, strokes, heart attacks, collapse, chest pain or suspected cardiac arrests within their immediate community. First Responders will provide basic life support in the vital first few minutes before the ambulance arrives. They may also be required to provide support and reassurance to relatives. They will work on a rota system with other members of the group and be called out by the ambulance service via mobile phone text message.
Why is a rapid response by LIVES Responders so important?Following a Cardiac Arrest, the chance of survival decreases by over 10% for every minute of delay until help arrives. After 8 minutes (which is the government response target for ambulance trusts), survival is less than 5%. Our responders are located within communities to increase the chance of attending a patient within that 8 minute window, increasing the chance of providing life saving treatment.