Are you trained in CPR? Then you must download the PulsePoint app and help save the lives of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Victims in Eagle County. You will be alerted via a reverse 911 call if a SCA victim is in need of CPR within a half-mile radius of your location. Often, it takes first responders up to 8 minutes to arrive. But lives can be saved sooner with the PulsePoint lifesaving app. The more people that sign up, the more effective the app will be.
To receive CPR/AED notifications and HELP SAVE LIVES in Eagle County:
1. Download the free PulsePoint app on your smartphone
2. From the agency list, find and follow Vail Public Safety Communications Center
3. Go to settings and select the “CPR” notification box (this is a very important step, please complete)
Recently, a man in Washington saved the life a one-month old baby because he took the time to download the app. He received an alert, ran to the scene, administered CPR and saved the infants life. We have the same app in Eagle County–you could be a hero too, just like this man. Read more on this incredible story: http://abcn.ws/Wn1kiv
You don’t need to be certified in CPR to save a life, you just need to be trained. Need to be trained in CPR? Starting Hearts will provide a free, 45-minute class for your business. We will come to you! Contact Meredith at 970.331.4066 or meredith@startinghearts.org to schedule a training.
About Neighbor Saver/PulsePoint:
With a simple alert from your phone, you could help save a life. Starting Hearts and the Vail Public Safety Communications Center have partnered to launch the PulsePoint CPR/AED mobile application to help increase sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survival rates in Eagle County. The PulsePoint app helps improve community response to SCA victims by enabling “Neighbor Savers,” or citizen bystanders, to provide lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and access public access automated external defibrillators (AED). PulsePoint is tied in to the County’s computer aided dispatch (CAD) system and notifies users who have signed up for the app that are within a half-mile of the person in need of emergency intervention. The app then sends the user a map to the location of the person in need of CPR and the nearest AED.