Shoctober
Please leave us details of your AED

An automated external defibrillator (AED) is sometimes referred to as a “defib”.

Some AEDs are available 24/7 in wall mounted cabinets on the outside of buildings. These are often known as community public access defibrillators (cPAD) sites.

Other AEDs are within buildings and may only be intended for use by staff within those buildings (although national organisations suggest that such restrictions should be avoided if possible). These AEDs are often referred to as static AEDs.

When somebody dials 999 to report a cardiac arrest, the ambulance service will send help as quickly as possible but will also help the caller perform CPR and use an AED if there is one nearby. Bystander CPR and AED use saves lives and the earlier an AED is used the better. For this reason, it is important for all ambulance services to know where every AED is located. Ambulance services know that there are AEDs within the community that have not been registered and knowing where the nearest one is could be the difference between somebody living or dying.

For this reason, your ambulance service would be keen to hear from you about and AED you or your organisation may have installed. It would be ideal if every AED was registered with the appropriate section of the local ambulance service. October has been used as “Shoctober” to highlight AEDs and their locations in other countries and more recently in the UK. If you are finding it difficult to send details to your local ambulance service, then please use the form below and we will pass the details to the relevant ambulance service within the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

If you have more than one AED to register please click Submit and then click here.