My God, the price of everything going up!

[mickle]

I went to use this phone yesterday and got such a shock!

 

[Cycleops]

Well you would.

 

[craigwend]

I went to use this phone yesterday and got such a shock!

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Do like the single cylinder brass engine underneath

 

[Beebo]

We had one in our local park.
It got vandalised by the village idiots.

 

[cougie uk]

I went to use this phone yesterday and got such a shock!

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Ooh I had a saddle like that once with my name on. I think it came with a magazine subscription.

 

[mickle]

Ooh I had a saddle like that once with my name on. I think it came with a magazine subscription.

I love this saddle. I'm trying not to use it much as it nears old age.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Do they ever yet used? I've seen them spring up all over the place but who ever uses them?

 

[Cycleops]

Do they ever yet used? I've seen them spring up all over the place but who ever uses them?

This guy might if he was anywhere near.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

This guy might if he was anywhere near.

But that's the point, what are the chances of somebody having a heart attack near one? Seems like a total waste of money, unless somebody can educate me otherwise

 

[cougie uk]

But that's the point, what are the chances of somebody having a heart attack near one? Seems like a total waste of money, unless somebody can educate me otherwise

If you have a heart attack and don't get a defibrillator used - your survival rate is about 5%

If someone uses a defibrillator on you the survival rate is over 70%

I know my local parkrun couldn't go ahead until we had raised the cash for a defibrillator for the event.

I think they're under a grand now so it's not a huge cost for something so effective.

 

[cougie uk]

Actually we should all really know where our nearest defibrillator is.

The guidance is to dial 999 as they should know where the nearest one is and also despatch an ambulance.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

If you have a heart attack and don't get a defibrillator used - your survival rate is about 5%

If someone uses a defibrillator on you the survival rate is over 70%

I know my local parkrun couldn't go ahead until we had raised the cash for a defibrillator for the event.

I think they're under a grand now so it's not a huge cost for something so effective.

I understand the logic, but there is one out side our local Co-op unless somebody has a HA inside the shop & somebody knows the combination to the keypad & then knows how to use one, they just come across as an ornament.

I understand the organisers of a fun run are required to have one/several onsite/available but they normally get the St Johns in to do it, who will have the equipment & know how to use it. I know when I just to run Horse shows it was in our insurance policy we had to have medical on-site.

I'm not objecting to them & if they save lives then good, but it seems to me that somebody who has an interest in them convinced somebody it was a good idea to have them put everywhere, seems like a jobs for the boys type of affair, one of Boris's pals maybe.

 

[craigwend]

I understand the logic, but there is one out side our local Co-op unless somebody has a HA inside the shop & somebody knows the combination to the keypad & then knows how to use one, they just come across as an ornament.

I understand the organisers of a fun run are required to have one/several onsite/available but they normally get the St Johns in to do it, who will have the equipment & know how to use it. I know when I just to run Horse shows it was in our insurance policy we had to have medical on-site.

I'm not objecting to them & if they save lives then good, but it seems to me that somebody who has an interest in them convinced somebody it was a good idea to have them put everywhere, seems like a jobs for the boys type of affair, one of Boris's pals maybe.

On the box, there's the number to ring for the release code, most if not all the villages where I live have them, and you know where they are.

Hopefully nobody ever needs them, as the stats above without them...

Money for most raised by fundraising

 

[stephec]

Defibrillators aren't used for heart attacks, they are used for cardiac arrests, the only thing they have in common is that they both involve the heart.

 

[Dogtrousers]

@Phaeton If you Google "cost effectiveness of public defibrillators" you'll find some research. Mainly US but useful all the same.