The Importance of AED Registration & Tracking

PulsePoint AED is a simple-to-use app that enables you to help build the public AED registry in your community – or anywhere! When a cardiac emergency strikes, finding an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) can help save a life. But that takes knowing where AEDs are located. AEDs that are managed using PulsePoint AED are accessible to emergency dispatchers and disclosed to emergency responders, including nearby citizens trained in CPR and off-duty professionals such as firefighters, paramedics, and nurses. Instead of asking the caller if there is an AED available, dispatch center staff can inform callers of nearby lifesaving devices.

Currently, there are 57 counties in Missouri with at least 1 AED registered in their area, if you are interested in using this registry for your jurisdiction please contact brian.maydwell@missouri911.org or admin@missouri911.org.

There is never a charge to use any aspect of the PulsePoint registry. PulsePoint is a public, non-profit organization providing the app and hosted AED registry for free as part of its core mission to improve cardiac arrest survival. For additional information: https://www.pulsepoint.org/pulsepoint-aed.

Several studies from the National Library of Medicine and other institutions show telecommunicators telling citizens how to preform CPR and locate AEDs increase the chances of saving cardiac-arrest victims. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30572769/

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