Students, educators, and others will have a unique opportunity to try out how the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) works when providing first aid at the USB Academic Library club. From 20 February to 26 March, workshops on this topic will be held there - every Tuesday from 8:30 to 11:00, people can try out whether they could help a person in life-threatening danger with this easy-to-use and increasingly accessible device. AEDs are devices designed for non-assisted resuscitation, where an electric shock (called defibrillation) is administered to the affected heart. They guide the layman with loud-spoken instructions.
The aim of these workshops is to exchange knowledge about first aid and the use of AEDs, which the USB Faculty of Health and Social Sciences has been helping with on an international level for a long time and systematically. Last year, the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Urgent Care of the USB Faculty of Health and Social Sciences together with the Estonian Tartu Health Care College was awarded an international project called "Automated External Defibrillators Save Lives". This project was submitted under the Erasmus+ programme, which is aimed at promoting education, training, youth, and sport in Europe. A series of workshops for the University of South Bohemia is part of this project, the benefits of which are clear and do not need to be explained at length. 'The mobile app Záchranka is used in the Czech Republic and this web portal offers a comprehensive database of all publicly available defibrillators in the Czech Republic. We have experience with these devices and we are engaged in educating the general public,' says project researcher Mgr. František Dolák, Ph.D., MBA.
The AED is able to automatically distinguish between defibrillatable and nondefibrillatable rhythms. In České Budějovice, these devices are available at the IGY centre, Kaufland and Tesco department stores and also at the K3 dormitory of the University of South Bohemia.
Useful workshops organized at the USB Academic Library are a demonstration of resuscitation using an automated external defibrillator. Visitors can see and try out the devices without fear on the following dates: 20 February, 27 February, 5 March, 19 March and 26 March, always from 8:30 to 11:00. Advance registration is not required, the workshops are free. Anyone interested in learning how to use this very intuitive device, which will give them a chance to save someone's life before the paramedics arrive, can come.
