The Court of Cagliari is organizing the “Heart Week”, a project dedicated to cardioprotection with a remotely monitored defibrillator connected to an operations center. At the Palace of Justice it will be possible to follow initial training courses aimed at all members of the Bar Association, magistrates and registry and judicial police personnel .
The project was born thanks to the collaboration between Simona Buono, an expert who has been involved for over 14 years in the culture of widespread diffusion of public defibrillators, the council and the equal opportunities committee of the Cagliari Bar Association.
The initiative has two phases: the first consists in the installation, inside the courthouse, of a latest-generation defibrillator, located on the ground floor and connected to the Areus. The second is the training of staff through dedicated courses with the leading experts in the sector .
One of the main objectives of the project is to reduce mortality from cardiac arrest by promoting – especially in highly frequented public places such as the courthouse – the culture of early defibrillation with the use of public defibrillators.
" Effectiveness is the watchword of the project ," Buono explains. "Today, people die even with a healthy heart. Unfortunately, over time, cardiac deaths have also occurred due to other concomitant symptoms, such as stress. Therefore, the possibility of intervening with a cardiopulmonary massage performed by trained personnel will be able to keep that deadly arrhythmia alive, avoiding cerebral hypoxia while waiting for the defibrillator."
The first plenary session is scheduled for the main hall of the Dettori classical high school : luminaries are expected such as the Pisan cardiologist Maurizio Cecchini, the "father" of defibrillators who has been working in emergency medicine for more than forty years and who is a promoter of early resuscitation in Europe.
