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Australia Swim Schools Association – for Automated External Defibrillator

Guy Leech – DefibrillatorsYes, compared to a full-on aquatic and leisure centre, heart attacks and other conditions that require the heart to be re-started are rare at Swim Schools. However, they do happen! Think past the young children in classes. Think the accompanying parents. Think grandparents coming to watch. Think adult learners and lap swimmers....
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Parkrun Australia: defibs4parkrun

Backgroundparkrun organise free, weekly, timed 5km runs. These events are held in parks around Australia and are open to anyone. To date parkrun has over 400,000 participants and there are over 200 parkrun events around the country.Fundraising NeedA few years ago a parkrunner died of a heart attack at a Cairns parkrun event, following this...
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Gift of life via handy defib by the river

JUST days after a Noosa News story about the potential lifesaving presence of a new community-funded defibrillator installed at the Noosa Boathouse restaurant, the device has brought a man back from the dead.
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Ironman Guy Leech wants TV friend’s death to make a difference, asking for firms to buy lifesaving device

World champion ironman and surf lifesaver, Guy Leech, wants firms, and even families, to invest in $2000 easy-to-use defibrillators which could mean the difference between life and death. He believes his friend Charles Stewart, 63, known as Chucky, could have survived if one of the devices had been close when he had a heart attack...
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Ironman Guy to share heart-start lesson in Noosa

SEVEN heart attack saves in 16 months is great, but former champion ironman Guy Leech is coming to Noosa next Tuesday to say ‘well done but we could be doing so much better.’Guy has been spreading his Get Heart Smart campaign, which aims to get defibrillators into everyday people hot spots, ever since a good...
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A shocking lifesaver as Brett enjoys his second run of luck

IT WAS a 5km Parkrun just days before Christmas last year that proved a heart-stopper for fit-as-a-fiddle 46-year-old accountant Brett Orpwood.
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The Agency teams up with Guy Leech to roll out life-saving automated external defibrillators (AED)

A friendly connection between Jon Snead and ironman Guy Leach has lead to an agreement to have The Agency roll out automated external defibrillators (AEDs) nationally, starting with Sydney with staff being trained on the life-saving equipment.“I’ve known Guy for many years through paddling, we’ve trained together over the past eight years. It was two...
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