LIFE SAVER: Wangaratta paramedic Ash Richter is encouraging residents to know how to administer an AED and perform CPR as part Ambulance Victoria’s ‘Shocktober’ campaign. PHOTO: Kieren Tilly
AMBULANCE Victoria (AV) has dubbed October as ‘Shocktober’ after research by the organisation showed a 50 per cent decline in cardiac arrest survival rates during the first wave of the pandemic.
