This App And You Can Save Lives

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

eee Health &= Saftety aes"=== [TTT This App And You Can Save Lives (NAPSA)—Every two minutes, on average, someone in Americadies of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)—but thanksto the PulsePointapp, help is in the palm of your hand. The Problem If CPR is administered immediately, a victim is two to three times more likely to survive the attack. The average EMS response time in such a situation is about 10 min- utes, which means the SCA victim coche survival. Here’s heartening news: Most American adults are trained in CPR. has a less than 8 percent chanceof Help Is Here (Faster) The good newsis that 57 percent of American adults are trained in CPR and most would be willing to use it or an automated external defibrillator (AED) to save someone else’s life, even when it’s some- one they don’t know. The bad news is that they may not realize when someone in their vicinity needs help. That’s where the smartphone app PulsePoint can help. Using location information, it notifies adults who are trained in CPR when someone nearby may require CPR while first responders are simultaneously dispatched. This enables communities to strengthen what emergency responders call “the chain of survival” andget lifesaving CPR started on victims sooner. PulsePoint in Action Sunnyvale, California resident and off-duty EMT Walter Huber was sitting down to dinner when he received a PulsePoint alert in April 2015. Notified that the location of an unconscious man suffer- Se ing from a SCA was only a few steps away, Huber rushed to provide care until first responders arrived. Thanks to this timely care, the man survived. PulsePoint and the CTIA Wireless Foundation PulsePoint is available in more than 900 communities in 22 states. With more than 505,000 downloads and more than 16,500 cardiac arrest alerts, the Pulse- Point app has played a key role in saving lives across the country. The app is available in the Apple App Store or in Google Play Android App Store. CTIA Wireless Foundation is proud to be a key sponsor of the PulsePoint Foundation and support the program’s expansion so that more people may benefit from this lifesaving technology. Learn More For more information, visit www.pulsepoint.org.

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