The document discusses alerting first responders through mobile phone technology to improve outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs). It finds that alerting volunteer first responders via app or SMS about nearby OHCAs improves bystander CPR rates, return of spontaneous circulation, and survival rates compared to standard emergency response. The document recommends implementing technologies to alert first responders and develop communities of first responders, as well as mapping public automated external defibrillator locations, to improve outcomes for OHCA patients.
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App to alert first responders to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
1. Tommaso Scquizzato
Center for Intensive Care and Anesthesiology
IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
scquizzato.tommaso@hsr.it / follow @tscquizzato
Apptoalertfirstrespondersto
out-of-hospitalcardiacarrest
8. Whoarethefirstresponders?
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citizens* who are voluntarily active as first responders in a
system/network created to provide non-professional
assistance in the event of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
10. EMS
DISPATCHER
DA-CPR
NEAREST AED AND
FIRST RESPONDERS ARE
LOCATED AND ALERTED
EMERGENCY
CALL
AMBULANCE
DISPATCH
OHCA
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19. ILCOR/ERCrecommends:
Implementing technologies to alert first
responders via app or SMS
Developing communities/groups of first
responders
Mapping the location of public AEDs
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20. Tommaso Scquizzato
Center for Intensive Care and Anesthesiology
IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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