Purpose: Visually impaired people respond to brief basic live support training programmes in a similar way to no handicapped people. Thus, they are valid candidates to be rescuers in a out of hotpital cardiac arrest. The aim of the present study is to propose a sticker which could ease the AED use by visually handicapped people. 

Material and Methods: Thirty - five participants took part in our study. Four of them were blind, the rest of the participants attended the activity with their eyes blindfolded. All of them were naïve in BLS. The most important aspect of brief training program was that participants were always in touch with training material (manikin and training AED). The participants/instructor ratio was 5:1. After hands-on test, they filled out a survey about perceived difficulties in AED use and changes that could make easier for a blind person to use a AED device. 

Results: The most proposed change was the signalling of the different elements of the defibrillator:  15% power-on button, 13 % paddles drawing and 13% shock button. As well as, 21% of them proposed to change the plug shape for another simpler than current one. No significant differences were obtained when blind people and no blind people were compared. 

Conclusions: Using a defibrillator without a sense of sight, participants found that signals from the different elements of the defibrillator could not be perceived. That's why we propose an adhesive template that includes signage to adapt defibrillators to people with visual impairments.

5 - Adapting defillators to visually handicapped people with a sticker.