Anchorage launches app to crowdsource potentially life-saving help

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Anchorage residents are now able to download and use PulsePoint, a free smartphone app that sends alerts to people within a 1-mile radius of a potentially life-threatening emergency to recruit assistance before paramedics arrive.

The Anchorage Fire Department demonstrated the PulsePoint app Friday. PulsePoint is a free smartphone app that sends alerts to people nearby when there's a life-threatening emergency to recruit help before paramedics arrive, and is now available in the Anchorage municipality. of a potentially life-threatening emergency to recruit assistance before paramedics arrive.

Officials say that the idea behind the app is that the sooner a person experiencing sudden cardiac arrest receives help — even if it’s just a few minutes before emergency responders arrive — the more likely that person will survive. The notifications are triggered by certain calls to a local emergency dispatch center: those involving reports of people who have stopped breathing or who no longer have a pulse, either from an overdose, heart attack, trauma or another kind of medical emergency.

 

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