https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/14/call-for-bleed-control-kits-to-be-rolled-out-across-uk This article focuses on the need for bleed kits within communities. Not just for serious stab wounds but also for other incidents; serious road collusions, a heavy fall in the street, and potentially fatal injuries at work.…
Some statistics There were 65,427 Employee non-fatal injuries reported by employers in 2019/20 (RIDDOR). These injuries ranged from slips, trips and falls on the same level (29%) to struck by a moving object (11%) and falls from a…
The young and Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Most people associate heart disease and cardiac arrests with older people, making a assumption it doesn’t affect the young. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Figures differing slightly (depending on the…
So you have a defibrillator in your community now – you raised the funds, purchased the cabinet and defib – that was the hard bit! Now, you need to make sure it is registered so it can be accessed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …