PulsePoint implementations are typically championed and led by local Fire/EMS agencies. 4Ģ Executive Summary, 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care, section 7.1 As countries build their mobile-alerting networks I expect they will experience improvements in bystander CPR rates, public AED use and overall survival gains.ġ Highlights of the 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR and ECC, pg. Michael Kurz, physician scientist at the Alabama Resuscitation Center and Immediate-Past Chair of the AHA Emergency Cardiac Care Subcommittee on Systems of Care. Notification of lay rescuers via a mobile phone app results in improved bystander response times, higher bystander CPR rates, shorter time to defibrillation, and higher rates of survival to hospital discharge." 2 It’s encouraging to see the AHA incorporating innovative approaches, such as PulsePoint, in the effort to improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates, said Dr. Mobile phone technology, such as text messages and mobile phone apps, is available to summon trained members of the general public to nearby events to assist in CPR and to direct those responders to the nearest AED. Despite the recognized role of lay rescuers in improving OHCA outcomes, most communities experience low rates of bystander CPR and AED use. 1Īccording to the latest guidelines, "emergency dispatch systems should alert willing bystanders to nearby events that may require CPR or AED use through mobile phone technology (Class 1, LOE B-NR).
Despite recent gains, less than 40 percent of adults receive layperson-initiated CPR, and fewer than 12 percent have an automated external defibrillator (AED) applied before EMS arrival. In 2015, when the previous recommendations were released, approximately 350,000 adults in the United States experienced nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) attended by emergency medical services (EMS) personnel. The PulsePoint Respond app, the North American standard in alerting willing bystanders to CPR-needed events, is currently in more than 4,400 communities and has built a network of more than three million subscribers. The 2020 American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) include updated CPR guidelines that direct emergency dispatch systems to use mobile technology to activate early bystander response in sudden cardiac emergencies. By expanding situational awareness beyond the purview of a traditional witnessed arrest radius, the opportunity to instantly draw skilled individuals, including off-duty health care professionals, grows, enabling critical life-sustaining BLS interventions to begin sooner and more often, and potentially of higher quality. And when citizens are more aware of and engaged with the health of their community, they become better partners with your agency-and a stronger link in your response efforts.įor extremely time-sensitive emergencies like cardiac arrest, notifying community first responders that are in the immediate vicinity of an event, simultaneously with the conventional Fire/EMS response, offers the potential to improve outcomes. Sudden cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, at any time, but PulsePoint Respond empowers CPR-trained citizens to help improve patient outcomes and save lives by reducing collapse-to-CPR and collapse-to-defibrillation times. THE CHAIN OF SURVIVAL IS ONLY AS STRONG AS WE MAKE ITĬreate a culture of action in your community.
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