Category Company Updates

A Catastrophic Bleed injury

Posted on 30 November 2020

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?

Posted on 16 November 2020

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!

Posted on 16 November 2020

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…

Customising your Turtle defib cabinet

Customise your cabinet
Posted on 25 September 2020

Turtle Cabinet Accessories Here at Turtle we think customising your cabinets to the needs of the company or community is really important.  So based on that, we provide a Turtle cabinet – heated or unheated, locked or unlocked,…

Our new AED trainer unit

Posted on 15 September 2020

Training defibs – (re)familiarise yourself with an AED Defibrillators in schools, offices and local communities are a great idea, vital even.  However, do you have enough people trained on using them?  Perhaps some volunteers have moved house, left…

No electricity supply for your outdoor cabinet?

See insulation inside
Posted on 31 August 2020

Here at Turtle Defib Cabinets we have developed an insulated, water tight outdoor cabinet suitable for areas where there is no electricity supply.  Whilst this isn’t as ideal as having an electricity supply – in some situations that…

Why have a heated cabinet?

The temperature control for the heating system inside a Turtle defib cabinet
Posted on 17 August 2020

This is a frequent question that we are asked, and the answer is quite simple – it preserves and protects the public defibrillator and any other equipment inside the cabinet. Thermostatically heated cabinets In all Turtle heated cabinets…

Where is the nearest defibrillator to me?

Locating your nearest defibrillator
Posted on 4 May 2020

Its all very well having a defibrillator in your locality, but often it can be hard to know where they are situated. It is easy when there is a big yellow/red/green cabinet that houses them – much easier…

Our technical cabinet ratings explained

Our technical ratings explained
Posted on 15 April 2020

Why should you trust Turtle defib cabinets? 10 year warranty Well firstly, we have a 10 year warranty on the cabinets.  So if they don’t last (they will, we’ve not had to replace a cabinet that has disintegrated…

New Insulated Cabinet now launched

Insulated Locked Defibrillator Cabinet
Posted on 24 April 2017

We are passionate about innovating, improving and modifying our cabinets to give our customers the absolute best cabinets available and with the latest available technology included. We are always looking for better ways to improve the cabinets, with…

We’ve modified the design of our cabinets

Posted on 25 April 2016

At the start of 2016 we decided to upgrade the heating system inside our cabinets, we were previously using a 100W thermostatically controlled convection heater, we have now moved to a 150W fan assisted heater which is more…