The Ministry of health will be allowed to use the defibrillators not only to physicians
The defibrillators will be allowed to use for first aid. This innovation prepares the Ministry of health.
Electropulse therapy of cardiac arrhythmias — defibrillation — will be included in the list of events to first responders, and devices for its implementation will appear in places of a mass congestion of people, at railway stations, airports, metro, stadiums.
Use defibrillatory can and persons without medical education.
The Ministry of health of the Russian Federation prepares the appropriate changes to your order number 477н from 4 may 2012.
According to the document, the first aid part of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation currently includes “the pressure of hands on the sternum of the victim,” artificial respiration “mouth to mouth” and “mouth to nose”.
According to the experts from sudden cardiac arrest in Russia kills about 250 people a year. Defibrillators in places where people can help to save those who can not wait for the ambulance.
How and who will use the devices for first aid is yet to be determined. “The placement and use of defibrillators will be developed further,” — noted in the Ministry of health.
One option is to teach the basics of resuscitation can begin your police, guards, conductors.