• Question: Have you saved lives?

    Asked by 983actj46 to Deborah, Adam, Adele, Matt, Samantha on 12 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by Ellie.
    • Photo: Deborah Aitken

      Deborah Aitken answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      I hope so. Everything I do is with the aim of minimising deaths from cardiac arrest. I train people, they go into the world and live their lives, and if they ever needed to use CPR then they would know how. Hopefully my work will mean that some people will get CPR and live when they would have died before.

    • Photo: Matthew Lee

      Matthew Lee answered on 16 Jun 2017:

      No. The science we do isn’t really the kind that saves lives, maybe in 20 years time someone will develop a medicine based on our research but thats very hard to do in science so who knows. Also I’ve luckily never been in a position where i have witnessed a crash or someone having a heart attack etc.

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