Nine Fraternidad-Muprespa centers are accredited as cardioprotected spaces
It is called cardioprotected space to someone who has the necessary elements to assist a person in the first minutes of cardiac arrest. The most common tool to do this is a defibrillator, a piece of medical equipment that analyzes the heart rhythm, identifies fatal arrhythmias and administers, with the intervention of a person, an electric shock whose purpose is to restore the heart's rhythm.
The majority of sudden non-traumatic deaths in economically advanced countries are due to ischemic heart disease that causes lethal cardiac arrhythmias. Therefore, to reduce deaths due to cardiac arrest, the best treatment is the early application of a series of actions that scientific medical societies have called the “chain of survival.”
In Spain, more than 30,000 people in the out-of-hospital environment and 20,000 in the hospital environment are susceptible to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). These figures more than justify the importance of implementing cardioprotected spaces.
Fraternidad-Muprespa already has nine of these spaces, duly accredited. These are the headquarters of the provincial directorates of Castellon, Madrid, Pamplona, Salamanca y Valencia, from the delegations of Reef in Las Palmas,I paint in Madrid and Pulpi in Almería, in addition to the Hospital Fraternidad-Muprespa Havana in Madrid.
These accreditations are the result of compliance with the different requirements in their respective autonomous communities to fulfill as cardioprotected spaces, a project in which the Purchasing and Services and Health Management departments of the Mutua have collaborated, a prior step to the progressive expansion to all the centers of the Fraternidad-Muprespa network.
Clinical and scientific evidence confirms that early defibrillation, within the chain of survival, is the most appropriate health response for a serious public health problem in whose resolution Fraternidad-Muprespa is completely committed.
