Every school in Northern Ireland is equipped with the LifeVac device. Many schools across the US are equipped with LifeVac. This is because even the best evidenced first-aid measures for choking (which are not recommended in Australia), often fail in severe airway obstruction; and schools have been successfully sued for a lack of duty of care in not implementing the LifeVac when they had the chance, resulting in the death or permanent brain injury of a child. 

In NSW, while some schools have embraced the device, other schools have refused to accept even donations of the LifeVac or to use it, based on very poor and incorrect advice from the NSW Education Department. This is the same Education Department that told school principals that defibrillators in schools are "unnecessary". How many children have to die, (and teachers helplessly watch them die) before The Minister and her department act in the best interests of the children they are supposed to care for?