AED Register

To register your AED, you will need to provide the AED’s location/address, brand, model, serial number, expiry dates for pads and battery and whether it has paediatric pads.

You’ll also need to confirm whether it is publicly accessible and the hours that it is accessible, and upload a photo of the AED.

In the ‘additional information’ field, please provide the name of your building or organisation, the building level and any other details that might help someone find the AED quickly in an emergency.

When you register your AED, you will be asked to set up an account to manage your AED registration.

This will create a GoodSAM account because the South Australian AED Register is hosted on the GoodSAM platform.

Please be assured that creating this GoodSAM account does not make you a GoodSAM responder.

Creating an account allows you to confirm, check or change your registration details.

It is advisable to register with a generic email address – eg, reception@organisation or info@organisation – rather than an individual’s email address which will become defunct if they leave your organisation.

Registration on AED locator apps will not comply with the Act and won’t make your AED visible to Triple Zero (000) call-takers, so your AED needs to be registered on the South Australian AED Register as well. This is the AED register which hosted on the GoodSAM platform.

Click here to go to the SA AED Register.

The AED Register Checker only shows publicly accessible AEDs, so if your AED is in a secure area, locked cabinet or marked as ‘private use only’, it is not considered publicly accessible, and will not be listed on the AED Register Checker.

Please note that the AED Registry Checker is updated at the start of each month, so if you have registered during the month, it may not appear on the AED Register Checker until the next month.

Another reason may be that your AED has not actually been registered on the South Australian AED Register.

If you need to check, please try logging into your account via https://www.goodsamapp.org/ and using the Login link in the top right corner. There is a ‘forgot your password’ option.

Alternatively, send your query to health.saasaedregister@sa.gov.au.

The AED Register Checker is not a tool to find an AED in a cardiac emergency.

In these circumstances, your first priorities are to call Triple Zero (000) to activate an ambulance dispatch and start CPR compressions.

The Triple Zero (000) call-taker can provide directions to the nearest AED if other bystanders are available to fetch an AED.

When someone suffers a cardiac arrest, the heart is no longer efficiently pumping blood to vital organs in the body. The longer this person is left without CPR and defibrillation, the harder it is to restart their heart.

For every minute that we delay defibrillation, the chances of the person surviving a cardiac arrest decreases by 10%. So early use of an AED can significantly increase their chance of survival.

In any emergency, an AED should be collected AFTER calling Triple Zero (000) and taken immediately to the patient. Some conditions may not immediately appear to be life-threatening, but may quickly deteriorate into a cardiac arrest. Having the AED on standby with the patient ensures it is available for use without delay.

You will not harm someone by simply attaching a defibrillator to someone who is not in cardiac arrest. If in doubt, attach the pads, turn the machine on and the AED will tell you if the person needs a shock

Even where no AED shock is advised, keep performing CPR if the person has collapsed, is not responding appropriately or breathing normally, has stopped breathing, is gasping or making snoring noises.

The Triple Zero (000) call-taker will support you to provide CPR until paramedics instruct you to stop and they are ready to take over.

It should have Therapeutic Goods Administration Australia (TGA) approval for use as an AED.

It should operate in accordance with current guidelines from the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation. https://www.anzcor.org/assets/anzcor-guidelines/guideline-11-2-protocols-for-adult-advanced-life-support-237.pdf

Look for a device that is light weight and easily transportable.

Ensure it has a long life battery capable of multiple shocks and multiple resuscitations

Your AED should be equipped with;

• two sets of defibrillation pads
• scissors
• a razor

Your AED needs to be durable enough to withstand the environment it is to be placed in. Most AEDs will have an International Protection rating indicating its capacity to withstand dust, water, temperature extremes or mechanical impact.

Ideally an AED should be capable of being used on both adults and children. Some AEDs use a child ‘key’ or different defibrillation pads for children under 8 years of age.

AEDs that provide visual cues and verbal instructions on how to perform CPR and early defibrillation are particularly beneficial and reassuring to users without medical training.

More information about AEDs and the Act is available here.

For questions about AEDs and compliance with the Act, email Health.AutomatedExternalDefibrillators@sa.gov.au

For questions specifically about AED registration, email health.saasaedregister@sa.gov.au.