Henrik Schakow

FirstAED Emergency Dispatch, Global Positioning of First Responders with Distinct Roles - A Solution to Reduce the Response Times and Ensuring Early Defibrillation in the Rural Area Langeland

FirstAED is a supplement to the existing emergency response systems. The aim is to shorten the first responder response times at emergency calls to below 5 minutes. FirstAED defines a way to dispatch the nearby three first responders and organize their roles in the hope of reducing response times, ensuring citizens safety and equal possibility to early defibrillation.

Emergency dispatch, global positioning of first responders with distinct roles and automatic external defibrillators: a logistic solution to secure basic life support and defibrillation

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Emergency dispatch, FirstAED global positioning of first responders with distinct roles - a solution to reduce the response times and ensuring early defibrillation in the rural area Langeland

Methods First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation is provided by 215 first responders who use their smartphone (iPhone 4S/5). The population purchased 95 AEDs which are available around the clock and placed less than two kilometres apart. FirstAED is an auxiliary to the public services and it enables the emergency dispatcher to send an organized team of first responders with distinct roles to the scene. FirstAED global positioning system GPStrack the 9 nearby first responders. FirstAED chooses the 3 most optimally located first responders who have accepted the alarm. FirstAED organizes the three first responders in a team: no. 1 reaches the patient to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation; no. 2 brings the AED; and no. 3 is the onsite coordinator.

The Langeland AED project - call for shorter response times (FirstAED)

Background The island of Langeland is a part of peripheral Denmark characterized by long ambulance response times and long distances to the nearest hospitals. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) is provided by 200 trained lay rescuers. The population has purchased 85 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) which are available around the clock and placed less than two kilometres apart. Most of the cardiac arrests occur at home and the rescuers are called by their private telephone. The full potential of the Langeland AEDs has not yet been achieved because of too long rescuer response times. The project is a collaboration between the AED Centre Odense University Hospital, the Region of Southern Denmark, the Langeland AED project and the company FirstAED.