Panicked dad's five minute wait to access defibrillator for unconscious toddler
When 2-year-old Lene Hiller wouldn't wake up, her dad rushed to find a defibrillator.
Ronny Hiller raced to the nearest automated external defibrillator (AED) at Woodend Community Centre, in North Canterbury, but found he needed to call 111 again for a code to unlock it. It took the operator five minutes to find the code.
St John medical director Tony Smith said there was no legal requirement for the ambulance service to be informed of the location of publicly available AEDs but he encouraged people to let them know and register the location of the device on the New Zealand AED Locations website.
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