Get “Face plant to the heart”, a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of establishing areas cardioprotegidas.

– every 20 minutes produced in our country a stopped heart and six of every 10 affected die before reaching the hospital. Mortality from cardiovascular disease accounts for 32.5 per cent of the total

– every minute of delay in resuscitation maneuvers decreases the chances of survival between 7 and 10 per cent, still, 42 per cent of patients not no resuscitation maneuver is practiced before the arrival of the medical equipment

– it is estimated that every year increases 1.5% the number of cases of angina and heart that entered the Spanish hospitals

-the campaign mission is educate the public of the need to implement cardioprotegidas areas, installing portable defibrillators on key points: sports centres, companies, hotels, gyms, schools

Madrid, 2011-June aiming to educate the citizens of the importance of prevention and the need to implement cardioprotegidas with defibrillators portá areaslaptops at key points such as schools, gyms, hotels, or sports centres, among others, the campaign set in motion expensive plant to infarction ”, with the collaboration of Oxidoc and the support of the European Foundation for Health, Research and Education, Scientific International Committee of Emergencies, the International Federation of Emergency Associations 112, the Spanish rescue societyRescue and Socorrismo-Medicina intervention in emergencies, catastrophes and disasters, the Spanish Association of emergency 112 and the American Heart Association Authorized Training Center.

He is estimated that every year increases 1.5% the number of cases of angina and heart that entered the Spanish hospitals. The total number of strokes, only 61 per cent receives hospital care and it is estimated that more than one-third died before reaching the hospital.

The estimate of the cost of ischemic heart disease in 2003 was 1.948,89 million euros between direct and indirect costs, and cardiovascular diseases represent an annual total cost for the Spanish of some € 7 billion public system.

The campaign expensive plant to infarction ”, aims to create a network of areas cardioprotegidas that allows to have quick access to a defibrillator in the event of sudden death or myocardial infarction, as indicated by the study, 80% of deaths from heart attack could avoid having quick access to a DEA (External Defibrillator semi automatic). The campaign has been available to the public website www.plantacaraalinfarto.com, which offers tips on how to proceed from a heart attack and how cardioprotegerse.

For Dr. Leandro Plaza bushel, President of the Spanish Foundation of the heart, and one of the participants in the presentation action is needed to prevent cardiovascular disease, it is the leading cause of death in developed countries. It is a disease that begins in the 1920s, increases with age and does not cure ”, and continues to is the responsibility of the patients avoid the four major risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking and diabetes, and is responsible for the Administration to invest in prevention for citizens ”.

Campaign features the image of former Miguel García, a midfielder who with 31 years, fell today in plenary meeting on October 24, 2010, during the course of the Party of the Union Deportiva Salamanca against Real Betis, and whom the swift action of the medical services of the club saved lives with two downloads of the defibrillator. Miguel García was stopped temporarily for 20 seconds.

We are facing a pathology dependent, because with each minute of delay in the adoption of measures the chance of survival decreases 10%. “We in SAMUR adopt the chain of life that includes early warning, the training of nationals in techniques of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), semi-automatic defibrillation, advanced life support care and coordination with useful Centre for leads to each patient Center specialized in your problem”, the Dr. Erwig poultry Torres Deputy Director General of the SAMUR-Civil protection, said during the presentation.

The campaign will be, from the month of September, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla and Bilbao with demonstrations, actions of awareness-raising, etc.

Mr. Miguel Vaquer, President of Oxidoc, said I would like everyone to have clear that nowadays all defibrillators are safe and that it is important that people lose fear using them because no patient will only worsen with the use of defibrillator, if not needed, but you need it can save your life ”.

OXIDOC was founded in 1988 and is a Spanish company based in Palma de Mallorca from medical products. It was created initially in order to give coverage to the growing demand for kits by the mutual work accident being innovative in this regard with the introduction of the kit of plastic as a means of improving first aid in the company, which has led him to become undisputed leaders in this market in the Spanish State.