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Life-Saving CPR Smartphone App PulsePoint:

Recently, the City of San Diego collaborated with the County of San Diego, San Diego County Fire Chiefs’ Association and other agencies to offer the free PulsePoint mobile app that alerts CPR-trained bystanders if someone nearby is having a sudden cardiac arrest that may require CPR.

The app is activated by one of the five public safety communications centers in the county at the same moment that fire and EMS resources are dispatched to the scene.

Every minute a victim of sudden cardiac arrest waits for CPR, their chance of survival drops by up to 10 percent.

After four to six minutes, brain damage begins to occur.

After 10 minutes, it’s often too late. Few resuscitation attempts succeed.

Now PulsePoint, an innovative new smartphone application, lets citizens trained in CPR know when their help is needed, allowing them to step in during those critical moments before a paramedic arrives.

How effective the app is in a community depends on citizen involvement. Get trained in CPR and sign up to receive the alerts. The American Red Cross, American Heart Association, and San Diego Project Heartbeat provide trainings throughout the year. You never know, you may just help save someone’s life! So please download the app through Google play or the Apple App store.

Also available through PulsePoint is a companion app called PulsePoint AED, which allows the public to register the locations of publicly accessible automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in their community.

The San Diego County region will be one the largest so far to begin using the PulsePoint app.

For more information and to download the app please visit: http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/sdcfa/san-diego-county-pulse-point.html

Thank you and stay safe!