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As a provider of essential business supplies, we get asked a lot about defibrillators. Whether they are worth footing the bill for, what do they do and more. To answer your question, here is our complete guide to defibrillators. After a few brief articles in the past giving snapshot guides on these devices, we give […]

Health and safety in a school setting is important for several reasons. Working in any space with young and potentially vulnerable people requires the right level of safety assurances should they need medical attention. This is why we should try and ensure defibrillators in schools become commonplace. Defibrillators have recently become a much sought-after piece […]

What is a defibrillator and how do I use one?   Defibrillators save lives by giving a high energy electric shock to the heart through the chest wall when someone is in cardiac arrest. They are called defibrillators because atrial fibrillation is the medical term for an irregular or abnormally fast heartbeat: the cause of […]

AED As a seller of AEDs (Automated External Defibrillator) and a company who have helped and participated in many charity events to educate and present local businesses, schools and public places with their own Defibrillator, there’s one thing we’ve picked up on: the untrained public are scared of AEDs. Two things we’re actively trying to […]

The Department for Education recently announced its intention to get life-saving defibrillators into British schools, with a new scheme to buy defibrillators at a reduced cost. This is a promising push in the right direction for schools around the country, and a government backed push is exactly what is needed to help cut down on […]

At Direct365, we’re firm believers that life saving defibrillators should be readily available and much more accessible, wherever you are – at school, work, in public and eventually in the home. A Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) can happen anywhere and around 90,000 people each year in the UK die from it. Whilst a Sudden Cardiac […]

The biggest killer of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) victims is time. Time is the most critical opponent to beat in the event of one, and it’s something that is rather hard to  combat. Granted, the addition of more defibrillators in schools, offices, public places etc will put defibrillators nearer to victims and therefore reduce the […]

How often do you check your first aid provisions, or know of the first aid provisions in your childs school? Do they simply have a little green box, locked in a cupboard, aside one of a few qualified first aiders? Is it kept in a room that hasn’t been opened since the new guy mistook […]

While there have been a number of news stories that have brought cardiac arrests into the mainstream consciousness – you may possibly think of sportspeople, footballers especially – there’s still a lot of unknowns. But these unknowns are costing people their lives. Educating the general public offers the best chance of reducing the rates of […]

The supply and purchase of defibrillators has become more common over the last 10 years than almost any other piece of medical equipment. While uptake still remains slow to steady, the increase in awareness around these machines has been a positive. There are a number of organisations, though, that have kept their defibrillators behind closed […]