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Are you involved with a Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) programme or are members of your community thinking of setting one up. If so, you will have many questions and decisions to make in the coming months and years.
· What should a committee be comprised of?
· What area do we wish to cover
· How many AED's are required to cover the area?
· What training is required?
· How will we raise funds?
IrishDefib has been created to help you answer some of these questions. It will quickly identify where PAD programmes are already up and running and will create links between these programmes. This will enable established programmes to share the benefit of their experience with others. Being a part of this network will give access to life saving information and the accumulated knowledge of others.
The site will show the public where AED's are located in their communities and tell them how to access them in an emergency. Importantly, it will enable the public to be armed with this information in advance of an emergency.
Your community gets:
· An online map that allows your community or organisation to plot the locations of your defibrillators on the website for all to see. This information is of use to members of your community and visitors to your community. The information is easy to disseminate and simple to update. At a glance any person can see where the public access AED's are and this information can be downloaded for printing if necessary.
· Training Management: A training management system which will allow you to easily manage your database of trainee names and will allow you to inform them of relevant information at the click of a switch. This system allows you to put your training dates online and interested persons can actually book and pay for their training online.
· This system will help to eliminate the problem of "no-shows" at training and save time and money on follow up calls and texts.
· Online forum: This will allow you to ask questions of other groups similar to your own and enable you to share your own experience. This information sharing will hopefully benefit all communities over time.
· Web pages: Your own news and contact pages to allow your community to publicise relevant information, show photographs and have people contact you. This will give greater exposure to communities for news, events and fundraising.
· This all adds up to a seven page website for your defibrillator programme.
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