CPR Equipment
Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance flies to time-critical emergencies across the whole country and relies 100 per cent on donations. From their bases in Aberdeen and Perth, the charity can reach 90 per cent of Scotland’s population within 25 minutes.
This £3000 award helped fund a machine that performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a patient automatically and is used in one of the charity’s helicopters. This life-saving equipment, known as LUCAS 3, can be used from the moment the team arrives on the scene and throughout the patient’s journey to hospital, enabling crews to focus on other vital care.
The Lucas machine is an invaluable piece of kit which provides the highest level of mechanical CPR, allowing us clinicians to focus on providing enhanced clinical interventions. Funding from the Gordon and Ena Baxter Foundation helped purchase one of three new Lucas machines which have already been utilised on one hundred and thirty-two occasions by our crews in Perth and Aberdeen, ultimately helping to save lives across Scotland, and we are very grateful.