The availability of ElevAED’s wireless AED enclosure (wAED), which can initiate a text message to five cell numbers when its door is opened promises earlier treatment of heart-related emergencies.

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.