We as a community in somewhat isolation geographically could be over 30 minutes away from emergency medical care in the means of an ambulance. This is vital when dealing with a sudden out of hospital cardiac arrest. It is well documented that time is muscle and with every 1 minute of downtime your chance of survival decreases by 10%.
Australia has a survival rate of approx 8% of out of hospital cardiac arrest and it is easily achievable to significantly increase the survivability rate with the use of a community defibrillator. Currently we have 3 Defibs available 24/7 in Catherine Hill Bay(CHB) but we require 2 more Defib’s to give total coverage of both new CHB and original CHB.

In conjunction with the installation and availability of these Defib’s a free community CPR course has been held and a refresher CPR course is scheduled for September 2024. This is also dovetailing into the Goodsam App which alerts registered users to be tasked in commencing CPR and bringing a defib directly to the scene until professional help arrives

With this in the event of a cardiac arrest we should have a responder and defib on scene within minutes ultimately resulting in a potential positive result

Once CHB is serviced we would like to extend this initiative to surrounding suburbs such as nords wharf, Murray’s beach, grandstand, and Summerland point which are all somewhat a significant distance from immediate ambulance response