If you have a heart attack, your best chance of survival is to revive your heart quickly with an automated external defibrillator or AED for short. According to Dr Dana Elliot Srither, the president of First Aid Corps (Singapore), time is critical. The heart has to be revived under five minutes to ensure the best chance of recovery.
Thankfully, an increasing number of places in Singapore now have AEDs on the premises in case anyone needs it. The only problem is locating these AEDs. Fortunately, there's now an app for that.
Open AED Nearby, an app developed by buUuk for First Aid Corp, and the app will pull up a list of places around you with an AED. With luck, you'll be close to an AED when it strikes.
Dr Srither suggests that families can use the app to decide where to shop or which restaurants to eat at, depending on whether it has an AED on the premises. "They can even choose which country clubs to purchase their membership based on the availability of AEDs there."
According to the app, if you do have a heart attack, do try to have one at the National University of Singapore, which appears to have the highest concentration of AEDs in Singapore. Orchard Road is also a good place to have a heart attack.
The good thing about this app is that is doesn't just work for Singapore. This app will also tell you where you can find AEDs in other cities around the world.
According to BuUuk co-founder Jon Petersen, the app uses data from a Google MyMap that includes AED devices worldwide. "Every 24 hours, we take the contents of the MyMap and parse it into a database. When a user opens the, app, it checks whether the database has been updated and downloads a new version if it has been."
Locations of AEDs are crowdsourced to volunteers worldwide who regularly add to the list. Based on this system, a new AED that is added to the Google MyMap will be reflected in the AED Nearby app within 24 hours. BuUuk took this project on pro bono.
AED Nearby is free. You can download it here.
Note 1: Story updated with quotes from Dr Srither.
Note 2: Story updated with quotes from Jon Petersen.
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2 comments:
Proximity is possible. You need to change the Search Type in the Preference tab. Thank you for your post and we will improve this in our next version.
HI Charles
I believe you were referring to ProxiHomes rather than AED Nearby. You're absolutely right. You can search by proximity.
I would love to know a little more about ProxiHomes. Do you think you can email me so we can talk a little? My email address is editor at imerlion dot com.
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JImmy
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