Mobile rescuers: when an app calls first aid

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The first minutes are crucial in life-threatening emergencies such as loss of consciousness and cardiovascular arrest. Before the emergency doctor arrives on site, important times have often passed. The Mobile Rescuers Association can help by informing qualified first aiders via a mobile phone app. This enables them to arrive at the patient's front of the ambulance and initiate life-saving immediate measures.

Cardiac arrest – every second counts

Every year 100,000 people die of sudden cardiac death in Germany. But even if help is called in time, it often takes too long for the emergency doctor to arrive at the patient.

In Germany, an ambulance takes an average of eight minutes to arrive at the scene. If resuscitation is not started in the meantime, this can have serious consequences. Irreversible damage to the brain and tissue occurs after only five minutes. Those who survive have to struggle with disabilities throughout their lives and often become nursing care. Of the Mobile Rescuers Association has set itself the task of improving first aid and thus bridging the critical first minutes until the emergency doctor arrives.

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Mobile savers: an app that saves lives

Ralf Stroop is an emergency doctor and engineer. As Founder of medgineering GmbH he developed the system and takes care of the integration of the mobile rescuers in fire service control centers. The pilot project started in the district of Gütersloh in early 2014. If an emergency call arrives at the emergency room control center, the employee not only sends the emergency doctor and emergency services to this address, but also uses the app to alert the next first-aider. Such qualified helpers either work for the fire brigade themselves, are doctors or work in civil protection. Once the helpers have logged in with their smartphone, they can be located using GPS. The computer checks which mobile rescuer is currently in the vicinity of the place of action and sends an application request. If the helper accepts the request, he is often on site in front of the emergency doctor and can begin to resuscitate the patient.

The time until a first aider reaches the patient can be reduced to two to three minutes with the app. This not only increases the chances of survival, it also avoids nursing care.

Not every first aider is qualified

The app spans a network of volunteer first aiders across the area of ​​application. Founder Ralf Stroop, himself a specialist in neurosurgery and emergency medicine, attaches great importance to first aiders knowing what to do in an emergency. That is why, despite medical qualifications, every first-aider receives training on the most important immediate measures. The training courses are offered free of charge and regularly refreshed. In the meantime, 410 first aiders have been trained. So far they have 159 successful assignments. And the number could continue to grow.

The app has also recently become available for Android users and other cities have inquired about the project. Mobile health and telemedicine ensure that care for heart patients and strokes from afar are constantly being improved. It is possible that one day mobile rescuers will be on hand all over Germany – minutes before the ambulance sirens can be heard.

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