By sharing a dedicated cellular network, the cost for funding reliable early intervention in high rises is modest.

The NFPA and ICC both rejected Elevaed’s proposals to place AEDs in high rises. In retrospect, block paramedicine is a superior strategy, with much wider promise.

“Matt Zavadsky dared to ask a provocative question in his presentation at the American Ambulance Association conference this past November, “Do Ambulance Response Times Really Matter?”

The continuing study of adjunct treatments for SCA; see also CPAP and the recent doubts about epinephrine

If a pulse is not restored before EMS transport, additional efforts at the receiving hospital almost invariably fail.

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

In New York the EMS time is about 12 minutes, due to traffic delays and the logistics of getting to victims in high-rise buildings.

As we look around for fresh ideas in the cardiac advocacy realm, there are some novel and promising concepts out there.

(By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times 3/2011) Wes Leonard, star of the Fennville High basketball team, died of cardiac arrest brought on by a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy, said the Ottawa County, Mich., medical examiner Friday. People with dilated cardiomyopathy have enlarged and weakened hearts that cannot pump blood through the body efficiently.  In some

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(By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times 3/2011) Wes Leonard, star of the Fennville High basketball team, died of cardiac arrest brought on by a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy, said the Ottawa County, Mich., medical examiner Friday. People with dilated cardiomyopathy have enlarged and weakened hearts that cannot pump blood through the body efficiently.  In some

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Efforts to improve survival should focus on the prompt delivery of medical interventions. CPR and AEDs both need human partners.

This article demonstrates little awareness of the need to protect high-rises as homes or workplaces as well.

It doesn’t matter whether or not EMTs do a few minutes’ CPR before defibrillation of cardiac-arrest patients, researchers conclude.

“Without that machine, I was gone. I was finished. It was over.”

Public-access defibrillation with AEDs is being implemented in many countries with considerable financial implications.