Taking a selfie with a defib could just help save a life
Life-saving defibrillators are being hunted down across Lancashire as paramedic chiefs launch their second annual Shoctober.
The North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) is asking people to #FindTheDefib and tweet selfies in order to help find the estimated thousands of life-saving machines that have been bought with good intentions but aren’t registered with the NHS trust.
There has been an encouraging proliferation of defibs across the county in recent years, particularly at schools and sport venues, sometimes prompted by emergencies where casualties could have benefitted from one.
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3 October 2016 in
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Source: Lancashire Evening Post
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