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AEDS SAVE LIVES: RELATED STUDIES & ARTICLES

GIS FOCUSED STUDIES:

• Why it’s important to know of 24/7 accessible AEDs

  Underutilisation of public access defibrillation is related to retrieval distance and time-dependent availability | Heart (bmj.com)

• Verbal EMD instructions to nearest AED was found to be statistically significant

  Automated External Defibrillator Geolocalization with a Mobile Application, Verbal Assistance or No Assistance: A Pilot Randomized Simulation (AED G-MAP): Prehospital Emergency Care: Vol 23, No 3 (tandfonline.com)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EMS PHYSICIANS:

• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10903120801906754#.VdtrWflViko

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION:

• https://cpr.heart.org/en/resuscitation-science/telecommunicator-cpr/telecommunicator-cpr-recommendations-and-performance-measures

• https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.117.029067

CPR LIFE LINKS:

• https://www.911.gov/assets/CPR_LifeLinks_Toolkit_2023_Final.pdf

EFFECTS OF BYSTANDER ASSISTANCE:

• https://medicinetoday.com.au/in-brief/bystander-cpr-doubles-survival-rate

• https://newsroom.heart.org/news/cardiac-arrest-survival-greatly-increases-when-bystanders-use-an-automated-external-defibrillator

• https://journals.lww.com/jcma/Fulltext/2021/12000/The_impact_of_bystander_cardiopulmonary.4.aspx

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180226085812.htm

FROM COPENHAGEN RESEARCH:

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300957215003330

ADDITIONAL PULSEPOINT RESOURCES & LINKS:

• Associated Article: https://www.pulsepoint.org/news/emergency-telecommunicators-need-access-to-a-community-aed-registry

• PulsePoint AED Registration page:  http://aedregistry.pulsepoint.org/

• AED Registry overview:     https://www.pulsepoint.org/aed-registry 

• AED Registry URL:   https://aedadmin.pulsepoint.org/