An Introduction to a Transnational Volunteer Notification System Providing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Victims Suffering a Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Elsner, Jesko; Schneiders, Marie-Thérèse; Haberstroh, Max; Schilberg, Daniel; Jeschke, Sabina

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08816-7_44

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“…Of particular interest is the category of mHealth apps which facilitate spontaneous communication between stakeholders in response to an emergency event. Smartphone applications can support the connection of app users to real-world medical emergency events and are being studied in diverse situations such as the mapping and response-use of AEDs (Automatic Electronic Defibrillators) (Folke et al, 2009;Merchant et al, 2013;Peberdy et al, 2006;Rea, Blackwood, Damon, Phelps, & Eisenberg, 2011;Sakai et al, 2011), volunteer emergency response (Cappato et al, 2006;Elsner, Meisen, Ewert, Schilberg, & Jeschke, 2014;Elsner, Meisen, Thelen, Schilberg, & Jeschke, 2013;Elsner, Schneiders, Haberstroh, Schilberg, & Jeschke, 2013;Groh et al, 2007;Marshall et al, 2006), the physical proximity of diabetes patients (D. Johnson, 2014) in need of glucose or monitors, and Emergency Response Communities (ERC) for anaphylaxis events (Schwartz, Bellou, Garcia-Castrillo, Muraro & Papadopoulos, 2014). Such systems have the potential to enable a new form of emergency medical response in which the social network-based connection between individuals creates a lay-layer of support which can augment or potentially modify current forms of EMS (Emergency Medical Services).…”

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Exploring mHealth Participation for Emergency Response Communities

Schwartz

Bellou

Garcı́a-Castrillo

et al. 2017

AJIS

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We explore the challenges of participation by members of emergency response communities who share a similar condition and treatment, and are called upon to participate in emergency events experienced by fellow members. Smartphones and location-based social networking technologies present an opportunity to re-engineer certain aspects of emergency medical response. Life-saving prescription medication extended in an emergency by one individual to another occurs on a micro level, anecdotally documented. We illustrate the issues and our approach through the example of an app to support patients prone to anaphylaxis and prescribed to carry epinephrine auto-injectors. We address unique participation challenges in an mHealth environment in which interventions are primarily short-term interactions which require clear and precise decision-making and constant tracking of potential participants in responding to an emergency medical event. The conflicting effects of diffused responsibility and shared identity are identified as key factors in modelling participation.

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Exploring mHealth Participation for Emergency Response Communities

Schwartz

Bellou

Garcı́a-Castrillo

et al. 2017

AJIS

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“…3,4 To enhance the rate of bystander CPR, several interventions have been introduced: media education campaigns, volunteer notification systems, chest compression-only CPR, and behavior change activities. [5][6][7][8][9] In accordance with the American Heart Association's recommendations, several states began a campaign to increase bystander CPR. [10][11][12] This included teaching CPR to laypersons, implementing telephone-assisted CPR, and dispatching first-responder firefighters and police.…”

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Utilizing Advanced Telecommunication Strategies to Enhance the Response of Emergency Medical Services Volunteers

Dadon

Alpert

Jaffe

2020

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Emergency medical services (EMS) provides a critical role in the rapid treatment, stabilization, and transfer of patients in the prehospital setting. The national EMS provider for Israel has developed a robust and unique organization of volunteers with advanced telecommunication strategies to activate and direct them in order to improve these processes. The volunteers include local high school students, international college students, emergency medical technicians, on-call volunteers, motorcyclists, and Life Guardian first responders. The telecommunication strategies include pagers, push-to-talk over cellular, and sophisticated smartphone-based software applications. These are monitored and directed via a central command and control station. Such processes, both on an organizational as well as technical level, can be adapted to improve prehospital emergency care.

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