Introduction

Before a community places a single Automated External Defibrillator in a public place, there are a great many decisions and choices to be made and a significant investment of time and money. There is also much that will need to be learned.

This section of IrishDefib.ie aims to give you an idea of the steps involved in getting a Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) programme up and running, documents are available to download where possible and there are links to relevant information where appropriate.

This is by no means an exhaustive list or even the very best option for you, we hope that with more users and as more programmes get up and running, a better overall programme will appear which will be of benefit to all users and all communities and more communities will achieve Irish Heart Foundation Heartsafe Community Status