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March 17, 2011 05:15 am GMT
Back in January I wrote about an ambitious new mobile application that has a very good chance of saving lives (perhaps even many lives). And it's just gotten support from the City of San Francisco, which is the first major city to pledge support for this very important service.The application itself is called Fire Department. Download it, and you'll be asked if you're trained in CPR. Click 'Yes', and the application will then passively monitor your location (without draining your phone's battery). Here's where the life-saving comes in: if someone calls 911 to report a possible heart attack victim, 911 dispatchers can send an alert to anyone in the vicinity with CPR training who has this app on their phone. They'll immediately receive a push notification with the location of the victim, as well as the locations of any nearby automatic external defibrillators (AEDs). The whole process only takes a matter of seconds. Minutes are absolutely critical in these situations, and the immediate initiation of CPR before an ambulance arrives can be life saving.
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San Francisco Pledges Support For Life-Saving "~Fire Department' Mobile App
Back in January I wrote about an ambitious new mobile application that has a very good chance of saving lives (perhaps even many lives). And it's just gotten support from the City of San Francisco, which is the first major city to pledge support for this very important service.The application itself is called Fire Department. Download it, and you'll be asked if you're trained in CPR. Click 'Yes', and the application will then passively monitor your location (without draining your phone's battery). Here's where the life-saving comes in: if someone calls 911 to report a possible heart attack victim, 911 dispatchers can send an alert to anyone in the vicinity with CPR training who has this app on their phone. They'll immediately receive a push notification with the location of the victim, as well as the locations of any nearby automatic external defibrillators (AEDs). The whole process only takes a matter of seconds. Minutes are absolutely critical in these situations, and the immediate initiation of CPR before an ambulance arrives can be life saving.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Pg0i4pFXWHI/
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