An Expert Advisory Group established by the NSW Ministry of Health and NSW Ambulance led a review on Public Access to Defibrillation, to advise on potential initiatives for providing access to defibrillation.
Public Access defibrillation (PAD), involves a bystander, trained first responder (e.g. firefighters, police officers) or recruited trained volunteer initiating cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and external defibrillation via an automated external defibrillator (AED) before arrival of emergency medical services (EMS).
This report was commissioned by NSW Health and prepared by the George Institute for Global Health.