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26 April 2025
Emergency services
It’s a shock to the heart

LIFE SAVER: Wangaratta paramedic Ash Richter is encouraging residents to know how to administer an AED and perform CPR as part Ambulance Victoria’s ‘Shocktober’ campaign. PHOTO: Kieren Tilly

AMBULANCE Victoria (AV) has dubbed October as ‘Shocktober’ after research by the organisation showed a 50 per cent decline in cardiac arrest survival rates during the first wave of the pandemic.

AV chief executive officer, associate professor Tony Walker, said Shocktober

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