Description:
Staying Alive is an app that provides defibrillator mapping and management of citizen responders. The app is available in 18 languages and maps over 120.000 defibrillators worldwide. It is a solution to improve the critical emergencies handling by locating and alerting citizen. The solution is used by French Emergency services to handle out of hospital cardiac arrest by alerting trained citizen responders. It can also be used as a Public Warning System to alert or notify responders within a specific perimeter.
The main contribution is an improvement of cardiac arrest survival rates. In the Paris region the survival has been multiplied by 2 reaching 35 percent when responders are dispatched on site.
Purposes of the solution:
Enhance preparedness
Improve health and mental outlook
Efficient response
The solution could help to address the following needs of first responders and authorities:
Organise and coordinate volunteers