#control the bleed
We have been working in Partnership with Lynne Baird, who set up the Daniel Baird foundation, for just over 6 months now. Lynne set up the charity in memorial to her son, Daniel Baird, who died from a…
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Stop the Bleed Day, 20th May 2021
Thursday 20th May 2021 marks Stop The Bleed Day, a day of awareness of the need for resources and training to react to catastrophic bleed injuries. In recognition of this day, Turtle Engineering Ltd, along with their partner…
Responsible recycling and servicing
The positive about metal defib cabinets is that metal is infinitely recyclable. This means that having served as a cabinet for a large number of years, it can be recycled and made into a number of different things…
Defib & bleed control combined cabinet
Our new 2-in-1 cabinet! We’ve recently launched a defib and bleed control cabinet and we are already seeing some significant interest in it. The new cabinet allows communities to have access to a combination of life saving equipment…
Knife crime – spending budgets on preventing deaths
Startling UK statistics on knife crime Whilst the Home Office reported a drop in Knife and Offensive weapon offences resulting in a caution or sentence of 20% in 2020 vs 2019*, that includes a pandemic and a lockdown…
Remote installation of your defib cabinet available
If you have the budget for a defib and cabinet, but no one to install it, do not fear! Here at Turtle we can not only supply the defib and cabinet, but we can fit it for you…
Fundraising for life saving equipment
Fundraising can feel like a daunting task – particularly if you have what you perceive as a large target. However, a lot of defibs and cabinets for communities are obtained through local fundraising. Perhaps someone has needed lifesaving…
Different ways to finance a defib & cabinet
There are many ways to finance a defibrillator cabinet in your community, or even a bleed control kit, and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to be able to offer this lifesaving equipment…
The Importance of Basic Life Support & AED training
Every year in the UK, 60,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of hospitals. Less than 10% of people experiencing cardiac arrests in the community survive. Yet survival rates in the community, can be as high as 75% when an…
A Catastrophic Bleed injury
Even with a pandemic hitting 2020 hard for over 8 months of the year, knife crime is still on the rise. During the second week of lockdown at the end of March 2020, in separate incidents – 9…
What is a bleed control cabinet & kit?
Help stem a catastrophic bleed We recently installed a bleed kit and cabinet on Hurst Street in Birmingham in conjuction with the West Midlands Police and Ambulance Service, the Daniel Baird Foundation (DBF) and Southside District BID team. …
A UK First!
The first ever Bleed cabinet and kit installed in Birmingham Designed to prevent people from bleeding to death while paramedics race to the scene, the UK’s first bleed control cabinet was installed in Hurst Street, Birmingham on Thursday…