Tagged with: aed.new
November 21, 2023
Eugene-Springfield, Oregon Wins 2023 PulsePoint AED Contest
HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield receives a $5,000 grant for the purchase of public defibrillators.
The PulsePoint Foundation, a public non-profit 501(c)(3), announced that HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield (OR) has won the 2023 PulsePoint AED Contest, winning a $5,000 grant to purchase AEDs (automated external defibrillators) for their community. HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield is a partner organization of Eugene Springfield Fire and PeaceHealth. The contest took place during the month of October, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, and was eligible to any community using PulsePoint AED to locate and register AEDs. HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield collectively registered a record number of AEDs, 406, at locations throughout the city including schools, government buildings, local businesses and gyms. The newly registered AEDs are part of the 650 AEDs locally that are in the process of being vetted by public safety personnel so their location is available to emergency responders during cardiac emergencies.
Filed Under: Press Release, Event, Highlights, News | Tagged With: 911 dispatchers, AED, AED Registry, aed.new, Public AED Registry, PulsePoint AED Registry, Sudden Cardiac Arrest, AED Contest, Community Heart Watch, AED Program Management, National AED registry, 911 AED Registry, Register AED, AED Grant, HEARTsafe Eugene Springfield, HEARTsafe, Eugene-Springfield, JoAnna Kamppi, Shocktober, 911 AED
August 6, 2023
APCO Intellicomm and PulsePoint provide free integration, displaying AED locations for 9-1-1 telecommunicators
Public safety telecommunicators utilizing APCO’s IntelliComm software can now quickly direct 9-1-1 callers during time-critical cardiac emergencies to the closest automated external defibrillator (AED). The life-saving advancement comes from the implementation of an AED geolocation plan between APCO’s IntelliComm and the PulsePoint Foundation.
The tool enables 9-1-1 telecommunicators to inform callers of the location of AEDs while using existing medical dispatch protocols within IntelliComm’s software, with no changes to workflow—saving critical time during life-threatening emergencies.
Each year in the U.S., there are approximately 360,000 Emergency Medical Services (EMS)-assessed cardiac arrests outside of a hospital and on average, less than 10 percent of victims survive. The keys to survival are early recognition, early CPR and early defibrillation. Action taken by bystanders prior to the arrival of EMS results in victims being two to three times more likely to survive.
Filed Under: Press Release, Highlights, News | Tagged With: APCO, Intellicomm, telecommunicators, AED Registry, AED Locations, aed.new, AED Map, AED Management, AED, emergency communications center, ECC, ECC AED, PSAP AED Registry, EMD, EMD AED Registry, EMD AED, Derek Poarch, APCO International, Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Hosted AED Registry, public safety, 911 AED, 911 AED Registry, IBM Watson Analytics, Emergency AED Registry
November 30, 2021
Fairfield County, Ohio Wins Inaugural PulsePoint AED Contest
County will receive $5,000 grant for the purchase of public defibrillators.
The PulsePoint Foundation, a public non-profit 501(c)(3), announced today that Fairfield County, Ohio has won the inaugural PulsePoint AED Contest, winning a $5,000 grant to purchase AEDs for public safety staff and/or the community. The contest took place during the month of October, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, and was eligible to any community using PulsePoint AED to locate and register AEDs. Fairfield County, with the help of Fairfield Medical Center’s Community Heart Watch Committee, collectively registered 238 AEDs at locations throughout the county including schools, government buildings, places of worship and sports centers. Once the newly registered AEDs are vetted by public safety personnel their location will be made available to emergency responders during cardiac emergencies.
Filed Under: Press Release, Event, Highlights, News | Tagged With: 911 dispatchers, AED, AED Registry, aed.new, Public AED Registry, PulsePoint AED Registry, Sudden Cardiac Arrest, AED Contest, Fairfield Medical Center, Community Heart Watch, Fairfield County, Michelle George, AED Program Management, National AED registry, 911 AED Registry, Register AED, AED Grant
September 28, 2021
October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month and we’re encouraging everyone to locate and register AEDs
With your help dispatch center staff can inform 9-1-1 callers of nearby lifesaving devices.
In recognition of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, the PulsePoint Foundation will be holding a contest throughout the month of October to encourage AED location identification and registration so these life-saving devices can be disclosed to 9-1-1 dispatchers and those nearby during a cardiac emergency.
Anyone who registers an AED in October with the free PulsePoint AED app, or online at AED.new will be eligible to win one of ten $500 Amazon gift cards. Collectively, the community that registers the most AEDs will be granted $5,000 worth of new AEDs to provide to public safety staff or place in their community.
Filed Under: Event, Highlights | Tagged With: AED Registry, AED, aed.new, 911 AED, Add an AED, Register an AED, Register a new AED, Nearby AED, Nearest AED, Locate AED, AED Management, AED Locator, AED Program, AED Database, AED Locations, AED Awareness, AED Map, AED Link, AED Entry, AED Registration, AED Program Registry, AED Program Management, AED Registry Management, AED Management Software, AED Registry for dispatchers, Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, Sudden Cardiac Arrest AED, Where are AEDs located, Track AEDs, Tracking AEDs, National AED registry, PSAP AED Registry, Online AED Registration, Community AED Registry, Community AED, Public AED Registry, Public AED, Find AED, Find an AED, Free AED Registry, No cost AED Registry
January 7, 2021
Emergency Telecommunicators Need Access to a Community AED Registry
Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) telecommunicators are a critical link in the cardiac arrest chain of survival. Placing the proper tools in their hands can improve outcomes.
The PulsePoint Foundation provides PSAP technology to make "Is there an AED nearby?" an unnecessary question during cardiac arrest call processing while also advocating for broad adoption of this lifesaving capability. Our goal is for the telecommunicator to instead inform the caller of the location of nearby AEDs. Consider how much more effective it would be to say, “there is an AED at that store,” and direct the caller to “send someone to retrieve the AED from the customer service counter,” as CPR instructions begin? We back our advocacy and commitment with comprehensive and accessible resources. By providing exceptional, industry-supported AED registry solutions at no cost—and we genuinely mean free in all aspects—we strive to remove deployment impediments.
Filed Under: News, Highlights | Tagged With: AED Registry, AED, aed.new, 911 AED, AED Registry for dispatchers, Add an AED, Register an AED, FirstNet AED, AED Registry app, Nearby AED, Nearest AED, Dispatch recommend AED, Dispatcher recommended AED, Find AED, Locate AED, Source AED, Hosted AED Registry, Browser-based AED Registry, Cloud AED Registry, AED Management, AED Registry Management, Community AED Registry, Telecommunicator AED, Emergency Telecommunicators, ECC AED, Free AED Registry, No cost AED Registry, ProQA, ProQA AED Registry, Paramount AED Registry, Priority Dispatch AED, Priority Dispatch Registry, EMD AED, EMD AED Registry, Calltaker AED Registry, Call taker AED, AED Database, Cardiac Arrest AED, Sudden Cardiac Arrest AED, Where are AEDs located, Automated External Defibrillator Registry, Defibrillator Registry, Track AEDs, PAD Registry, Public Access Defibrillator, PAD AED Registry, Enhanced 9-1-1 AED, NG AED, NG Registry for AED, Find an AED, HeartSafe AED Registry, HeartSafe AED, National AED registry, AED Locator, AED Link, AED Registry Database, Priority Dispatch ProQA Paramount, Register a new AED, PSAP AED Registry, AED Registration, Tracking AEDs, Link AEDs, Online AED Registration, AED Program Management, AED Program Registry, AED Management Software, AED Log, AED Program
June 10, 2020
Priority Dispatch and PulsePoint Partner to Help 911 Dispatchers Guide Callers to Closest Lifesaving AED
June 23 Webinar to Highlight Best Practices in Dispatching Citizen Response to Sudden Cardiac Arrest
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—Emergency medical dispatchers across North America can now quickly direct 911 callers during time-critical cardiac emergencies to the closest automated external defibrillator (AED), thanks to the implementation of an AED geolocation plan by Priority Dispatch and the PulsePoint Foundation. The partnership between Priority Dispatch and PulsePoint allows 911 dispatchers to inform callers of the location of AEDs while using existing medical dispatch protocols within Priority Dispatch’s ProQA® software, with no changes to workflow—saving critical time during life-threatening…Filed Under: Event, Highlights, News, Press Release | Tagged With: 911 dispatchers, AED, AED Registry, aed.new, Alicia Simper, EMD, Emergency Medical Dispatcher, IAED, International Academics of Emergency Dispatch, ProQA, Public AED Registry, PulsePoint AED Registry, PulsePoint Respond, Ron McDaniel, Scott Robinson, Shannon Smith, Sudden Cardiac Arrest