{"id":14923,"date":"2023-06-19T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seriana2025.genomagency.it\/?p=14923"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:24:49","slug":"a-neighborhood-defibrillator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seriana2025.genomagency.it\/en\/a-neighborhood-defibrillator\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety in the workplace and in the territory: Seriana Edilizia makes a defibrillator available to workers and the neighbourhood to save lives."},"content":{"rendered":"

A neighbourhood defibrillator: our choice.<\/h2>\n\n\n

For Seriana Edilizia, safety is a topic of absolute importance, indeed given the company\u2019s commitment and awareness of its impact and prevention in the workplace. We therefore asked ourselves how to make the workplace a safer and more cutting-edge on the health front because, nowadays, the statistical figures available on work environments, which we will detail in the second paragraph, cannot be tolerated. By virtue of the implementation program for the health and safety of workers, we have equipped ourselves with a semi-automatic defibrillator on site which will allow timely assistance for employees who suffer cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The function of the defibrillator: How it works and why it is so important:<\/h2>\n\n\n

In addition to the precautions already adopted by our personnel specialized in the installation of anti-seismic devices for our Customers, the decisions taken for the protection of office workers are fundamental: one of these is the installation of an exterior semi-automatic defibrillator (AED)<\/strong> at the entrance of the company, by the front desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two types of Exterior Defibrillators: Automatic<\/strong> (AEDa) and Semi-Automatic<\/strong> (AEDs). These differ in terms of use; in fact, the AEDa only has an “ON\/OFF” button<\/strong> and, once the electrodes<\/strong> have been applied to the patient, the discharge\/shock occurs automatically following testing carried out by the device itself. The last step does not happen automatically with AEDs (the defibrillator that our company offers) as it has a “SHOCK” button<\/strong> that must be pressed by an operator after the usual automatic testing that is performed on the patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This choice is a precaution in the face of the unpredictability of life and, at the same time, a commitment to the application of available and accessible preventive solutions. According to Vega data<\/strong>, every year between 60,000 and 70,000 people die from cardiac arrest in Italy alone, representing 10% of the overall annual deaths. To this data we must also add the disastrous workplace accidents which, in the first quarter of 2023, reached 264 victims and Lombardy is in the orange zone with regards to exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With adequate in-depth analysis it is possible to understand the need for such a healthcare device: those who are not well-informed, often believe that it is enough to call 118 for emergency assistance. In the case of the heart, however, it could prove fatal to wait even 1 minute too long for help. Cardiac arrest is in fact sudden and you have about 10 minutes<\/strong> (7 minutes before experiencing devastating brain damage) at most to save that person subject to cardiac arrhythmia<\/strong>. The heart is the organ that has the role of providing oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood to the cells; indeed, brain cells are the most delicate and vulnerable<\/strong> in the event of myocardial arrest (heart muscles that allow the organ’s systole and diastole<\/strong> to alternate, in other words it allows for the “rhythm pump” function). As the minutes pass, the amount of brain damage increases dramatically until reaching a point of no return, thus resulting in the subject’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who survived a heart attack have incurred various brain damage of different extent based on readiness of resuscitation services: data from the Mario Negri Institute<\/strong> show how 70%<\/strong> of patients discharged, therefore survivors, have experienced post-cardiac arrest syndrome<\/strong>, i.e. cognitive and cardiac dysfunctions that increase the subject’s mortality. There may or may not be severe neurological damage, as already mentioned, the Mario Negri Institute specified that, in the luckiest of cases, there are memory deficits<\/strong>, up to vegetative state<\/strong> conditions that lead to the patient’s death. Humanitas also reports low blood pressure, tachycardia, acute pulmonary oedema<\/strong> (with severe shortness of breath at rest) and ischemia<\/strong> (lack of sufficient blood) of other organs due to poor ability of the heart to carry out its function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how is the defibrillator a fundamental tool for beating a heart attack? Statistics<\/strong> provide us with percentages that leave no room for interpretation, making the actual reality very clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n