Pulse Point App
Pulse Point Smart Phone Application
The City of Newport Beach, in conjunction with the other Metro Cities fire agencies from Anaheim, Brea, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, and the City of Orange, have launched a trial version of the smart phone application Pulse Point. Pulse Point is a potentially lifesaving mobile application (“app”) for both Apple iOS and Android smart phones.
Pulse Point alerts nearby citizens when there is a need for critical lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the location of a nearby public access automated external defibrillator (AED). The free app is intended to improve community response to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Metro Cities Fire Authority, in cooperation with the Metro Cities’ dispatch center (Metro Net), is the first in Orange County to pilot this application.
Pulse Point is activated by Metro Net’s computer-aided dispatch at the same time as fire and paramedic resources are dispatched. It then notifies CPR-trained individuals of a cardiac incident occurring within a quarter mile of their current location. Users receive the location of the incident with a map, the closest automated external defibrillator (AED), and a link to CPR instructions. A citizen responder reacting quickly to a Pulse Point alert can greatly improve the chances of a victim’s survival.
The Pulse Point app is available free of charge on Apple iOS and Google Android devices. More than 530 communities across 18 states have enabled citizen response through Pulse Point, and 75,000 people carry the app on their smart phone. To date, the Pulse Point app has been activated on 1,500 actual cardiac emergencies informing nearly 6,000 nearby citizen rescuers.
Visit the Pulse Point website to learn more.