Funding

How we will use your funding

Marked emergency response cars would massively aid our team to provide our live saving service to the people of the North East. Marked cars also increase the safety of our responders as they can be seen more easily and make our team more identifiable on scene at incidents. Suitable emergency services specification vehicles cost around £28,000 – £38,000.

The Lucas mechanical chest compression device is proven to provide consistent high quality chest compressions to a patient suffering a cardiac arrest. It provides many advantages in the prehospital world where for example, number of staff can be limited it can take over the work of one person, it can also provide high quality chest compression during patient transport. These cost around £10500 each

Access to point of care ultrasound can aid in making decisions which significantly effect a patient’s treatment and outcome. Being able to ‘see inside’ a patient in real time allows responders to tailor care to that patient and to identify issues. The GE Vscan extend ultrasound units are self-contained compact units which do not need to be connected to other devices to work. They have a good battery life and are easy to operate in the pre hospital world. These cost around £5000 each.

Defibrillators are a vital piece of equipment to treat patients suffering cardiac arrest, in heart rhythms which could benefit from defibrillator every minute without treatment could reduce a patients chance of survival by 10%.

Response Bag and Equipment. These medical backpacks allow our responders to safely carry medical and other specialised equipment to patients. They also protect the equipment from damage. They are packed with life saving equipment.