The GoodSAM (Smartphone Activated Medics) application allows medically trained people to sign up and respond to suspected cardiac arrests occurring within 1km of their location. The smartphone app operates in the background and will send an alert to your phone. The Lake Ōkāreka Volunteer Fire Brigade would like residents with medical training i.e first aiders, nurses, paramedics or doctors to assist our brigade in responding to medical emergencies
GoodSAM connects those in need with those in the local community with life saving skills to help until the emergency services arrive. By alerting local residents to local incidents, GoodSAM aims to prevent the irreparable brain and heart damage which all to frequently occurs during a cardiac arrest or traumatic incident. Opening an airway and giving basic life support can radically alter the outcome for these patients. The problem has been finding people who can do this, alerting them and rapidly getting them to the patients.
There are of course people with such skills; off-duty doctors, nurses, paramedics, police officers, first aiders and local residents are all "Good Samaritans", who are simply unaware of the emergency going on next door or outside their building. The Good SAM App uses the technology that can notify these people and help the person in need.
If an ambulance is available, it takes approximately 15 minutes to respond to Lake Ōkāreka. However, for every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation the chances of survival decrease by 7-10%. International survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are highly variable and can range from less than 6% to greater than 50%.
Table 1: New Zealand figures for events where resuscitation was attempted.
There are of course people with such skills; off-duty doctors, nurses, paramedics, police officers, first aiders and local residents are all "Good Samaritans", who are simply unaware of the emergency going on next door or outside their building. The Good SAM App uses the technology that can notify these people and help the person in need.
If an ambulance is available, it takes approximately 15 minutes to respond to Lake Ōkāreka. However, for every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation the chances of survival decrease by 7-10%. International survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are highly variable and can range from less than 6% to greater than 50%.
Table 1: New Zealand figures for events where resuscitation was attempted.
Data from St John has clearly detailed the improved outcome for patients by increasing the survival rate from 12% to 18%, where fire brigades have used defibrillators. There are three automated external defibrillators in the community at 11 Acacia Road, 15 Steep Street and the Lake Ōkāreka Community Hall at 71 Okareka Loop Road, which you can grab on the way to the address.
The goal is to get an AED to a suspected cardiac arrest as soon as possible – the sooner we start CPR and use an AED the better the chances of survival for your family members, friends and neighbours.
For more information visit: www.goodsamapp.org
www.stjohn.org.nz/first-aid/goodsam
Data from St John has clearly detailed the improved outcome for patients by increasing the survival rate from 12% to 18%, where fire brigades have used defibrillators. There are three automated external defibrillators in the community at 11 Acacia Road, 15 Steep Street and the Lake Ōkāreka Community Hall at 71 Okareka Loop Road, which you can grab on the way to the address.
The goal is to get an AED to a suspected cardiac arrest as soon as possible – the sooner we start CPR and use an AED the better the chances of survival for your family members, friends and neighbours.
For more information visit: www.goodsamapp.org
www.stjohn.org.nz/first-aid/goodsam
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