Pupils learn how to use life-saving defibrillator
PUPILS and staff at Myton School have paid tribute to a former pupil who died after her heart stopped beating by installing a life-saving piece of equipment at the school.
SADS UK, a charity that funds research into sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, donated the automated external defibrillator to the school - and a group of pupils and staff have now undergone training to enable them to use it.
Headteacher Paul MacIntyre said: “As Myton School is one of the largest in Warwickshire, we were immensely pleased to receive this defibrillator.”
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Hide AdPupils and staff have been holding assemblies to raise awareness of the condition and how the defibrillator - which provides voice prompts - works.
The charity says that using a defibrillator alongside CPR can increase the chance of saving a life of a person suffering a cardiac arrest to 50 per cent.