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Location Information Services of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)




AuthorsSuomi Reima, Lindfors Eila, Somerkoski Brita

EditorsWickramasinghe Nilmini

Publishing placeHershey, Pennsylvania

Publication year2021

Book title Optimizing Health Monitoring Systems With Wireless Technology

First page 102

Last page118

ISBN978-1-5225-6067-8

eISBN978-1-5225-6068-5

ISSN2327-9354

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6067-8.ch009

Web address https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/chapter/267399

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/50972604


Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are a leading death cause in the world. Cardiac arrest is one of the most usual, and very quickly fatal, especially in out-of-hospital environments. Defibrillation, aside with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is an effective means to restart blood circulation and heart operation, even though even these forms of treatment can help just in sadly few situations. Defibrillation was invented and first demonstrated already year 1899, but first in the 2000s portable defibrillators with good automatic functions started to penetrate daily environments of people, especially in urban settings. Nowadays the starting point is that every citizen with normal human functionality should be able to use automated defibrillators. The chapter discusses how modern information and communication technology, especially mobiles services, internet, and location services based on them, could help citizens in the first crucial step in implementing their safety competence in emergency situations by using automatic defibrillators if they could only find them.



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