Naloxone is a benign drug that CPR volunteers could use to rescue overdose victims, who now outnumber auto fatalities.

The Tandem AED/EMS strategy has an in-house AED delivering its lifesaving treatment well within four minutes. EMS then arrives some minutes later to consolidate the rescue.

It’s a simple, tandem sequence that resolves a major issue for a large percentage of the population – EMS cannot reliably access SCA victims inside four minutes, and in high rises it is nearly impossible.

Living or working in a high-rise just about eliminates your chance of surviving a sudden cardiac arrest.

People who live or work in high rise buildings are poorly protected against sudden cardiac arrest because they are more difficult to access by EMS crews. A single line of code mandating one AED in the lobby can protect occupants in high-rises worldwide.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – namely cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes – cause 60% of all global deaths, but receive just 2.3% of international development assistance for health.

This is the absolute Bible on the subject, one 9-1-1 call at a time, forty years on, and this volume is every municipality’s working manual for SCA rescue implementation.

The vision is for every American who suffers sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) to receive lifesaving, state-of-the-art care at the scene, en route and in the hospital.

Or, high rise people supporting each other as our end of the tandem AED/EMS bargain.

A high-tech system that allows physicians to receive heart data from paramedics in the field is now live at Stanford Hospital & Clinics.

Elevators compact the cost to acquire and manage AEDs. A building with 30 floors and 200 suites needs just one AED in the lobby, and it’s visible to everyone.