PHOTO: debaird via flickr
Public defibrillators have been getting some good press lately. That’s because three people were revived from cardiac arrest within a week in November thanks to the heart shocking devices—and the bystanders or professionals able to use them.
But as recently as April 2011, CTV reported that Ottawa paramedics wanted to see more of them around the city.
That followed the death of a 38-year-old man who had been playing ball hockey in a community gymnasium on Maitland Avenue that does not have a defibrillator.
That prompted OpenFile to ask what other parts of the Ottawa might not have the potentially life-saving paddles.
This map was made with data provided by the City of Ottawa. The location of each AED—automated external defibrillator—is marked with a red dot.
Generally, the map shows a lower density of AEDs in the rural parts of the city and a higher density in the suburban and urban parts. Some neighbourhoods, such as Bel Air Heights, Champlain Park and Riverside South, are notable exceptions.
This chart shows the number of AEDs per 1000 people in each ward (based on the city's population estimates):
This chart shows the number of AEDs per square kilometre:
Bay, Somerset and Alta Vista wards have the highest density of AEDs per person with 1.05 per 1000 people each. In Somerset, however, there are six AEDs per square kilometer. Alta Vista has only two, by comparison.
Gloucester-South Nepean has the lowest number of AEDs per person at 0.18 per 1000.
West-Carleton (0.01 per sq km), Osgoode (0.02 per sq km), Rideau-Goulbourn (0.02 per sq km) and Cumberland (0.03 per sq km) have the lowest number by area, but come in much higher when the number is calculated per person. West-Carleton, for example, has a surprising 0.44 AEDs per person.
CITY OF OTTAWA FIGURES
Number of defibrillators: 572
Number in marked police cars: 138
Number in fire service pumper trucks: 77
Number in schools: 53
Number in libraries: 26
MUCH OF THIS POST WAS FIRST PUBLISHED BY OPENFILE OTTAWA
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