With the aid of several generous donations from members, the club has bought a defibrillator.
It will be installed soon.
A training session for its use has been arranged for Wednesday 29th May at 7pm in the clubhouse.
We would like as many members as possible to attend – you never know when it may have to be put into use.
4 years ago our own member David Straker would have died on court playing in a tournament in London were it not for one of these machines.
"Defibrillation is a common treatment for life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation, and pulseless ventricular tachycardia. Defibrillation consists of delivering a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to the affected heart with a device called a defibrillator. This depolarizes a critical mass of the heart muscle, terminates the dysrhythmia, and allows normal sinus rhythm to be reestablished by the body's natural pacemaker, in the sinoatrial node of the heart."
