The public are being left playing a “deadly game of hide and seek” because of a lack of signage for life-saving defibrillators, according to a leading resuscitation expert.
Professor Charles Deakin, divisional medical director at South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS), has warned that two-thirds of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in the UK have no signage at their locations and few have any guidance directing people to them.
