- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillation (AED) are skills that every adult and mature teen is able to learn
- early CPR and use of AED in the pre-hospital setting leads to significant better outcomes for persons sustaining a sudden cardiac arrest
- having an organized First Response with dedicated & trained role allocation (including ambulance call procedures, responder task allocation, & equipment roles) is the 'gold standard' in Emergency First Response & is linked to be best patient outcomes