Relationship between location, response time and percentage survival to hospital admission
| Location of arrest | Events (n) | Events with known response times (n) | Median (IQR) response time (min) | Events with known survival to hospital admission (n) | Survived to hospital admission n (%) |
| Home | 328 | 216 | 5 (3–6) | 243 | 32 (13.2) |
| Public | 307 | 171 | 4 (2–5) | 254 | 89 (35.0) |
| Medical facility | 128 | 73 | 3 (2–5) | 100 | 21 (21.0) |
| Sports facility | 113 | 53 | 2.5 (1–5) | 96 | 75 (78.1) |
| Office | 49 | 24 | 5 (3.75–9.25) | 39 | 21 (53.8) |
| School/university | 12 | 8 | 5 (4.25–15) | 11 | 6 (54.5) |
| Unknown | 40 | 1 | 3 (3–3) | 11 | 7 (63.6) |
| Total | 977 | 546 | 4 (2–6) | 754 | 251 (33.3) |
‘Public’ included public streets, parks, hotels, restaurants and recreational facilities excluding those locations reported otherwise. Medical facilities were non-hospital treatment centres, such as general practitioner offices, dental offices or residential care facilities, where the public access defibrillator is available for use by lay rescuers.