🚨 Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Australia  🚨 • 32,213  out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur every year: That’s around 90 Australians every day  — men and women, young and old, often fit and healthy people with no diagnosed heart condition. • $2 billion  is the estimated annual community cost • Less than 10%  of people survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest When sudden cardiac arrest strikes, survival rates remain alarmingly low — just 5–10%  — leaving families, communities, and the...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is one of Australia’s biggest silent killers. Every day, 80–100 Australians suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and over 90% don’t survive. That’s around 30,000 people a year, with fewer than 3,000 surviving. We know what saves lives:  Immediate CPR  Early defibrillation Survival drops by 7–10% every minute CPR or defibrillation is delayed. But when bystanders act quickly, survival more than doubles with CPR and quadruples when a defibrillator is used. If...

Queensland's healthcare system is under immense pressure. Ambulance ramping, overworked emergency departments and paramedics and stretched frontline resources have become all too common. While these systemic issues are widely recognised, one contributing factor often goes unaddressed: the lack of regulation in event healthcare. Across Queensland, events ranging from music festivals to sporting competitions draw thousands of people into confined spaces, often in high-risk environments. These...