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This morning has begun the first course on management of defibrillators, started from the Department of Health of the City of Alhama.

It is addressed to the personnel of the municipal facilities in which these devices will soon be installed, with the aim of knowing their management well, as well as agents of the Local Police.

The City Council, in collaboration with the Spanish Red Cross, Local Assembly of Alhama, has convened an approved course of EXTERNAL SEMIAUTOMATIC DEFIBRILLATION.

The training, of 12 teaching hours, takes place on 10 and 11 March, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the conference room of the Women's Nursery, Cl. Luis Pasteur, s / n .

The course, which will feature the presentation of José Luis Garre Sánchez, doctor and President of the Red Cross, Assembly of Alhama, is aimed at a maximum of 20 people, complying with the regulations, but later will be called the courses necessary to train more personal.

The importance of the defibrillator

It is an electronic device, in this case portable, that diagnoses and treats that cardiorespiratory arrest when it is provoked by fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia (there is electrical activity in the heart, but without mechanical effectiveness or ineffective pump).

Thanks to an electrical discharge managed by the DESA, it is possible to restore an effective electrical and mechanical heart rate.

Recently this City Council has acquired a total of 9 external semi-automatic defibrillators (DESA), which, together with the 4 already existing in different municipal units or in the Red Cross, come to form the basis of an endowment of means that allows little by little to convert Alhama In a cardioprotected municipality.

What does this mean?

Well, when a person, whatever age, enters a cardiorespiratory arrest, something that happens in our country once every 20 minutes, every minute of delay in acting to treat that condition, the chances of survival will be reduced by 10 %.

To avoid this, a set of actions that integrate the so-called "survival chain" come into play, so that if the chances of surviving, even if there are no sequelae, are high, they are high.

In that "chain" the disposition and good use of a defibrillator can be decisive.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia