MOORERS and visitors at Tattenhall Marina are in safer hands after staff received life-saving training .
The North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) visited the rural boating complex to pass on skills to help treat someone who may have a cardiac arrest.
The training is part of the region’s defibrillation project which gives community leaders, businesses and volunteers the opportunity to learn how to restart victim’s hearts.
The initiative is also designed to supplement NWAS’s first responder teams, which are typically based in isolated areas of Cheshire and the North West where ambulance crews and paramedics would struggle to get to someone within their target time of eight minutes.
Community resuscitation development officer Rob Sharples said: “Giving free training to local volunteers means they have the ability to provide life-saving help in the first few critical minutes after a cardiac arrest.
“Survival chances fall by 10% every single minute someone is in cardiac arrest. Having defibrillators in communities, particularly in rural areas, helps save lives.
“Research shows that applying a controlled shock within five minutes of collapse provides the best possible outcome for the patient”
Three management staff and two moorers received the training last week as part of the defibrillation programme which will see 200 life-saving machines located across the region.
Tattenhall Marina manager Sarah Bardell said: “We are delighted to offer this additional and reassuring service to our users and are only too happy to support the North West Ambulance Service and its public access defibrillator initiative.”
