A mobile phone app helps match people in cardiac arrest with people nearby who are trained in CPR — and a new study shows the system could help save lives.
Researchers in Sweden used a mobile notification system to locate CPR-trained volunteers in the immediate area to resuscitate people in cardiac arrest before emergency responders could arrive. The findings are published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The mobile “on-call” system they used, called SMS Lifesavers, increased the number of bystanders providing emergency CPR for victims of cardiac arrest — when the heart’s electrical system abruptly stops working — by 30 percent. Read more in 12wmaz.