An emergency lifesaving service is being deployed in Scandinavia where people nearby can help with AED by 'automatic notification from smartphone app' when cardiac arrest occurs.
In the event of cardiac arrest, how quickly you can get CPR is very important, and a quick electric shock with a cardiac massage or automated external defibrillator (AED) can save your life. Will go up. In order to increase the survival rate of people with cardiac arrest outside the hospital, Denmark has introduced an 'emergency lifesaving system that allows nearby people to immediately carry out lifesaving activities' using a smartphone app.
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According to the Japan AED Foundation , the lifesaving rate decreases by 10% for every minute of delay between cardiac arrest and receiving an electric shock. The lifesaving rate is hopeless if it takes more than 10 minutes for the ambulance crew to arrive in the state of cardiac arrest, but by the time the ambulance crew arrives, electric shock by AED and heart massage will save the life. There is a possibility that
A survey conducted in 2019 revealed that there were 1230 cases of cardiac arrest outside the hospital in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Forty-seven percent of them were found to have been killed by civilians using AEDs before the arrival of paramedics.
Following the results of a survey in neighboring Sweden, Denmark publicly introduced a smartphone-based emergency lifesaving system in 2020. At the time of writing, more than 111,000 Danish citizens have installed the app '
TrygFonden Hjerteløber works with the vital check function of the smartphone, and when the smartphone owner has a cardiac arrest, it automatically sends an emergency signal based on the location information acquired by the GPS function.
The map data of the AED is also registered in TrygFonden Hjerteløber, and the location of the AED is displayed on the map. People in the vicinity who receive the emergency signal can quickly find the nearby AED. Then, the map on the app will guide you to the person who has suffered cardiac arrest, so you can rush to the person who has collapsed due to cardiac arrest and take immediate action.
TrygFonden Hjerteløber can be used by taking short training sessions, of which 75% of the more than 110,000 participants do not have a professional medical education. Still, the effectiveness of Tryg Fonden Hjerteløber is very high, with 7% of people in Denmark having cardiac arrest outside the hospital who were able to receive AED treatment by the time the ambulance arrived. , It has risen to 21%. In addition, the survival rate of circumscribed cardiac arrest has increased from 4% to 16%.
'There is no doubt that Tryg Fonden Hjerteløber will be a guide to a community that improves the survival rate of cardiac arrests,' said Mickey Eisenberg, a professor of prehospital resuscitation at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
In the United States as well, 'PulsePoint' has appeared as a cardiac arrest relief system that utilizes smartphones in the same way as
The act of 'entering a stranger's house' raises security concerns, even to save lives. Therefore, it is very difficult for private volunteers to enter their homes and rescue them, and in many cases, the purpose of 'quickly resuscitating a person with cardiac arrest' cannot be achieved.
However, even if there are security concerns, it is still more important to save human lives. Professor Eisenberg points out that the success stories of Tryg Fonden Hjerteløber can have significant implications in the United States. Freddie Lippert, director of emergency medical services in Copenhagen, Denmark, said, 'There is a person with cardiac arrest in front of you, and if you do nothing, you will die most of the time.'
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