Defibrillator presented to Women's Resources

Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls purchased a PAD for Women’s Resources of Lindsay

On 20 April 2016 the Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls provided an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to the Women’s Resources in Lindsay. Women's Resources provides an 18 bed safe, short-term shelter for women and their children who are seeking safety from abuse.  The shelter operates 24 hours, 7 days a week including a crisis support line.    Women's Resources offers supportive counselling to women who have been abused or are currently in an abusive relationship. Information is available at www.womensresources.ca

 

The Heart and Stroke Foundation, report that approximately 7,000 cardiac arrests occur in Ontario alone each year. The odds of survival are almost four times greater if someone performs CPR immediately, and when combined with early defibrillation, AEDs can increase sudden cardiac arrest survival rates up to 75% if delivered in the first few minutes prior to the arrival of EMS.

 

Padcore Plus is a privately owned business providing Defibrillator PAD sites across the province of Ontario. Information is available at www.padcoreplus.ca.   The guidelines that are adhered to are the same guidelines that were created through the Heart and Stroke Foundation in the recent 2010 ECC Guidelines of Resuscitation.    Having medical oversight allows them to develop this program. It also allows them to provide Quality Assurance and Continued Quality Improvement. Should a PAD site experience an event where someone collapses due to Sudden Cardiac Arrest, a Padcore Plus consultant will retrieve the data of the event that is stored in the AED, download it and will review the data for compliancy to the program in consultation with the medical director.     Should the victim have a return of spontaneous circulation, the data that is retrieved will be forwarded to the location where the patient is transported.

 

The Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls offered to purchase a PAD for Women’s Resources and will continue to provide the funding for the service agreement through Padcore. The Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls obtains funds for projects like this through fund raising such as selling tickets in their Classic Car Draw which can be seen at www.rotarycardraw.com.

 

Pictured from left Helen Robinson, President of the Rotary Club of Fenelon Falls, Terry Lowe from Padcore Plus, Penny Chatson, Residential Services Manager Women’s Resources and Randy Johnson, Chair of the Classic Car Committee.