The Community Resuscitation Development Officer (CRDO) posts were established in 2008, in a joint venture between the Service and the British Heart Foundation to help the community save lives by improving the chain of survival of people experiencing a ‘heart attack’.
The Community Resuscitation Development Officers role is to:
- develop and support ‘Community First Responder’ volunteer schemes (There are now 121 schemes and over 950 volunteers across Scotland)
- establish Public Access Defibrillators and provide community education about these
- develop links between Community First Responder’ schemes and local station staff
- train community members in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), via the ‘Heartstart’ campaign, in partnership with the British Heart Foundation