Telephone cardioprotege facilities of Aena airports.

Madrid, August of 2011. Telefónica Telecom public (TTP), a subsidiary of Telefonica, install 86 columns of cadioprotección in 35 airports in Spanish Aena airport network, which will contribute to combating the cardiac sudden death, an episode each year produces 25,000 deaths in Spain. AENA airports has recently awarded through open competition to the subsidiary of Telefónica cardioprotección 35 airports in its network and add new columns to the installed 46 earlier in Barcelona Airport _El Prat and 11 in the Majorca, among other things.

This initiative includes a major project undertaken in Spain to fight against sudden cardiac death, alteration that can be reversed if it is near a defibrillator.

Telefonica telecommunications public, launched cardioprotección service in 2005, to combat sudden cardiac death. System, considered the most advanced in the world, has a device, specifically a column rescue cardiac ”, which incorporates a defibrillator and further, transfer calls to emergency services to cardiac events of sudden death. Advanced technology allows you to be monitored at a distance so that you can always meet their State.

Telefónica has already 500 facilities and spaces cardioprotegidos and airports, offices, town halls, factories and hotels. These cardioprotegidos areas are monitored by the management network of Telefónica, who will be responsible for, once the local alarm system is activated, transfer the call to emergency services. As they arrive, the staff not sanitary, but trained in this technique, will pay for semi-automatic defibrillator, a device that voice will indicate the steps to follow. The device carries out an assessment of the status of the victim and if heart stop, applies only the shock needed to reverse that State.

Telefónica will also maintenance and integrated device monitoring so that they are available.

With this initiative, Telefonica intends to transfer the benefits of telecommunications to all areas of everyday life and adds to the challenge of reducing the number of deaths by cardiac arrest through a comprehensive service based on public access to defibrillation.

the installation of defibrillators in public environments begins to be mandatory in some autonomous communities, which have understood, that are vital to reduce the figures of killed by sudden death cardiaca.

Sudden cardiac death

Sudden cardiac death is the sudden loss of pulse and knowledge, caused by an unexpected failure of the heart’s ability to effectively pump blood to the body. Most of these cardiac episodes are due to an alteration in the electrical conduction of the heart caused by a disorder called ventricular fibrillation, in which the heart is chaotic activity. You can only reverse if applies an electrical discharge between three and nine minutes of the onset of symptoms. Every minute that passes, the chances of survival are descended from a seven to ten percent.

The difficulty of access in such a short time a defibrillator explains that he will only survive a three per cent of the victims of sudden cardiac death.

Relationship of airports with installed Cardioprotección columns:

El Prat (Barcelona); Vitoria (Alava); Albacete; Badajoz; Ibiza, Menorca; Ceuta; La Coruña; Santiago de Compostela (La Coruña); Gerona; Granada; San Sebastián (Guipuzcoa); Huesca; Logroño (La Rioja); Melilla; San Javier – Murcia; Pamplona (Navarre); Asturias; Fuerteventura; Lanzarote; Tenerife North; La Palma; El Hierro airport; Santander (Cantabria); Sevilla; Airport de Reus (Tarragona); Valencia; Airport Bilbao (Vizcaya); Zaragoza

relationship of airports in installation columns Cardioprotección:

Palma de Mallorca; Tenerife Sur; Leon; Salamanca; Burgos; Valladolid; Vigo (Pontevedra).