“The Netherlands is the first country in the world with a dense and nationwide resuscitation network of citizen responders and AEDs.”

Last year, nearly 4,000 AEDs were installed in the Netherlands. These are portable devices that can restore heart rhythm with an electric shock during cardiac arrest. The total number of installed Automated External Defibrillators now stands at 24,500, according to the Heart Foundation's annual report.

It is also mentioned that last year 25,000 more Dutch people registered as citizen responders who can resuscitate a victim of cardiac arrest within 6 minutes. This brings the total number of citizen responders to 245,000.

”This has increased the survival rate from cardiac arrest in the Netherlands from 9 to 25 percent in recent years," according to the Heart Foundation.

Source: Heart Foundation