Cerebral Palsy Midlands is thanking donors for their continued support; money raised through its fundraising events has now enabled them to install a publicly accessible defibrillator and bleed control kit at the centre on Victoria Road in Harborne for the benefit of the whole local community.
We wanted to know if the HeartHero Elliot could really live up to its IP66 rating and its claim to be one of the lightest, most portable AEDs on the market - not on a spec sheet, but in a country that specialises in glaciers, lava fields, ice caves, torrential rain, and every weather condition a personal defib might have to survive.
In December 2025, Coventry Business Improvement District (BID) launched a campaign to find a missing defibrillator. Turtle Medical saw the news story and offered to loan an AED that would be the first to be installed with the company’s brand new DefibTrack technology. Now Coventry BID has instaled the tracking system to it's fleet of AEDs.
Most of us don’t expect to see someone collapse in front of us. But when it happens, it’s often sudden, confusing, and frightening. One possible cause is a condition called [...]
If someone collapsed in front of you, would you know what to do? For many members of the public the answer is no. The idea of using a defibrillator can [...]
There’s something quietly reassuring about seeing a defibrillator in your local high street, school, or village hall. It signals preparedness, that if the worst happens, help is close at hand. [...]
In a cardiac emergency, the quality of CPR can make all the difference, but getting it right under pressure is harder than it seems. In high stress situations panic can [...]
When someone has a cardiac arrest, every second counts. Did you know that for every minute that a victim goes without CPR/AED support their survival chances reduce by 10%? Emergency [...]
When you think of defibrillators, the locations you think of first might be: your local hospital, sports centre, pub or shop. But what about the top of a remote hill? [...]
A defibrillator is a life-saving device, but it’s only as good as its condition. In the vital moments of an emergency, a functional defibrillator can quite literally mean the difference between life and death.
