
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

May 20, 2020
PulsePoint Resources During COVID-19
Spike in Cardiac Deaths Related to COVID-19
The New England Journal of Medicine reported a 58 percent increase in the number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) in the first 40 days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, as compared with the same period last year. Many U.S.-based hot spots have reported a similar increase in OHCA as the pandemic spreads. With social distancing and a reduction in public space use during the pandemic, along with hospital avoidance, more cardiac arrests are occurring at home, and survival rates are lower due to delays in CPR and AED use.Bystander CPR was down more than 15 percent during this…Filed Under: News, Highlights | Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, NEIM, Pandemic, Verified Responder, VR

December 6, 2019
Joe Korngiebel Joins PulsePoint Foundation Board
Filed Under: News, Highlights, Press Release | Tagged With: Board, Joe Korngiebel, Workday

August 15, 2019
Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department Recognizing Several Local Heroes
Filed Under: Event, Highlights, News, Press Release, Video | Tagged With: Albert Hart, East Bay Regional Parks, EBRPD, Joe Testa, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District, Shadow Cliffs Lake

January 25, 2019
8 years of saving lives

October 10, 2018
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation Releases Position Statement on the Use of Mobile Technology to Help Save Lives Threatened by Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Filed Under: Event, Highlights, News, Press Release | Tagged With: AED Registry, Carissa Caramanis, Henry Jampel, Position Statement, SCAF, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, Verified Responder

September 20, 2018
PulsePoint Welcomes Thomas C. Jenkins to Advisory Board
Filed Under: Press Release, Highlights, News | Tagged With: Tom Jenkins, Advisory Board, IAFC, Jack Parow, Rogers, Thomas Jenkins

May 24, 2018
Volunteer Firefighter Saves Texas Man in Cardiac Arrest
Filed Under: Press Release, Highlights, News | Tagged With: Putnam County 911, Putnam County EMS, Waldo Vasquez

May 22, 2018
IAFC Recommends Use of Mobile Technology to Activate Citizens and First Responders to Improve Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates
Filed Under: News, Highlights, Press Release | Tagged With: AED Registry, IAFC, International Association of Fire Chiefs, Jim Philipps, Position Statement, Rogers Fire Department, Thomas Jenkins, Verified Responder, White Paper

December 12, 2017
Citizen CPR Foundation and PulsePoint Award $20,000 Grant to Sonoma County EMS/Save Lives Sonoma
Filed Under: News, Highlights, Press Release | Tagged With: Citizen CPR Foundation, ECCU, Emergency Cardiovascular Care Update, Grant, Save Lives Sonoma