According to the heart foundation, about 17.000 people in the Netherlands suffer a cardiac arrest outside the hospital every year. Because the heart stops pumping, the organs and brain get no blood supply and therefore no more oxygen. Cardiac arrest is a life-threatening situation: if no action is taken, the victim will die. The chance of survival is greatest if a CPR

More and more stations in the Netherlands are getting an AED (Automated External Defibrillator). In recent months, the railway organizations NS and ProRail, together with the Heart Foundation, have already installed AEDs at various stations. This is not a superfluous luxury if you know that in our country there are about forty people per day