Heartstart Somerset

Our Instructor Phil did a HeartStart Course for 7 people today. They were volunteers of the Green Goblins Club. Well done to everyone who took part in the training today.

A new cabinet has been installed by HeartStart Somerset for the defibrillator at,

South Petherton Tennis Club
Lightgate Lane
South Petherton
Somerset
TA13 5AU

Tonight our Instructor Phil did a HeartStart Course for 10 people. A great effort by all those who attended👏❤️

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Ambulance UK February 2024 Volume 39 No. 7 February 2024 DEDICATED TO THE AMBULANCE SERVICE AND ITS

This is the DEATH MASK of a young woman who drowned in the River Seine in the 1880s. As was customary in those days, her co**se was put on display in the Paris mortuary, in the hope that someone might recognize her and claim her body.

The pathologist on duty became entranced by the girl with the enigmatic half-smile, and so he commissioned a plaster cast made of her face. This mask was replicated many times over. She became known as "L'Inconnue de la Seine,” or “The Unknown Woman of the Seine.”

In 1955, a toymaker named Asmund Laerdal created what we now know as the CPR doll. Asmund wanted his mannequin to have a natural appearance. Remembering a mask on the wall of his grandparents' house many years earlier, he decided that the L'Inconnue de la Seine would become the face of Resusci Anne - the CPR doll.

So you see, this anonymous woman who drowned in the 19th century is responsible for saving many, many lives the world over. It is said that she has the most kissed face of all time.

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We hope you enjoyed this little tale!

Our Heartstart Somerset scheme has 75 public access defibrillators registered on the Circuit for deployment to a cardiac arrest. In 2022 we had 86 deployments with 10 over the Christmas period. If you are one of our guardians, thank you for your support in 2022, please keep reporting and checking pad and battery expiry dates. It has never been more important to be rescue ready ❤️⚡🚑

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Early this evening my grandson Jack completed a heartstart course, specially adapted for children. A life skill he won’t forget. Even Tom his brother who is nearly 4 had a go. ❤️

Tonight staff from the Flying Horse in Taunton completed a Heartstart Course which involved good quality CPR, the safe use of a defibrillator, Choking, Bleeding and placing a casualty in the recovery position. Well done Tina & Calum Bowden.

Seven Sisters Primary School received one of our free AEDs and cabinets having applied via the Premier League’s Defibrillator Fund. The League is providing life-saving devices to grassroots and community club facilities, which will benefit up to 1.5 million people across England and Wales.

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