Take Heart Australia Day
Take Heart Australia Day which will take place on Monday 30th of November at Allianz Stadium celebrates the cause of increasing cardiac arrest survival by encouraging everyone to learn how to save the life of the person standing next to them.
This iconic venue will form the backdrop for the largest and most important resuscitation event in Australia, taking place on Monday 30th November 2015, where around 10,000 people will be trained for free on rotation in high-quality CPR.
There will also be simultaneous training events held across NSW – in schools, surf clubs, rotary clubs and footy ovals – in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record in CPR taught across multiple venues.
With collaborators and volunteers from NSW Ambulance, Royal Flying Doctor Service, NSW Police, NSW Fire and Rescue and more, participants will also get a unique opportunity to get up close to emergency vehicles, vintage police cars, half an RFDS airplane, sporting personalities, political figures, partnering organisations, and of course to learn CPR!
Not only will Take Heart Australia Day 2015 result in a huge amount of publicity for itself, making Australia the benchmark for other countries to live up to in community CPR training, it will also mark the launch of the Young Hearts and Heartsafe Communities programs.
Goals of the day
1. Greatly increase public knowledge & awareness of sudden cardiac arrest
2. Teach close to 20,000 people how to save a life (and take out the Guinness World Record!)
3. Launch Take Heart Australia’s initiatives for 2016 and beyond
Who will be there?
• Students/teachers/parents from primary & secondary schools
• Corporates
• General public
• Sporting personalities
• Media
What will happen?
CPR training
• Participants will be trained on rotation in high-quality, compression-only CPR – up to 1,000 at a time
• Training will take place on the pitch after entering the stadium via the iconic players’ tunnel
• Instructions will be delivered from a central stage and broadcasted on the stadium screens; on-the-ground trainers will monitor and assist
Other activities
• Emergency vehicles to clamber upon – ambulances, airplanes, helicopter simulators, fire trucks, police cars etc
• On-screen content
• Dialling ‘000’ simulation
• Demonstrations on how to use a defibrillator
• Interaction with partner/sponsor stalls
To register your club’s involvement and find out more about the day, go to www.takeheartaustralia.org/signup/
