Leading charities and health organisations urge North East defibrillator owners to register devices on new database to help save lives

Leading charities and health organisations are urging defibrillator owners in the North East of England to register their devices on a new national database, called The Circuit, which could help save thousands of lives from cardiac arrests in the coming years.  There are around 2,100 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the North East of England each year, but just one in 16 people survive. Every minute that passes without CPR or defibrillation reduces the chances of survival by up to 10 per cent, ...