Thanks in large part to Frank Pantridge and John Anderson, it was claimed that in the mid-to-late 1960s, the city of Belfast was the 'safest place in world' in which to have a heart attack.

This was largely due to his Cardiac Ambulance, based at the Royal Victoria Hospital, which enabled the fastest treatment to patients and access to the world's first lightweight defibrillator.
Such were the benefits of getting the highly portable device to the scene of medical emergency, that medical teams all over the world implemented their very own 'Pantridge plan'.

Clip taken from Man Alive: Heart Attack 2 - Great Britain, originally broadcast on BBC Two, Wednesday 2 July, 1969.





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