In today’s KSUT Conversation, Tami Graham speaks with Fred Hutt, Executive Director of the Southwest Regional Emergency & Trauma Advisory Council, and Scot Sholes, EMC Chief at Durango Fire Protection District.
They're part of a group working to launch PulsePoint, a public notification system for cardiac emergencies, in La Plata County.
PulsePoint integrates with 911 call centers to let community members receive notifications when a cardiac emergency is occurring nearby.
Such notifications increase the chance that someone in the vicinity of an emergency has a portable, automated external defibrillator, a medical device used to treat sudden cardiac arrest.
PulsePoint is part of a wider initiative to expand on the success of Heart Safe La Plata. It's also part of a statewide initiative to implement PulsePoint as a registry for AEDs statewide.
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