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Organization delivers donated AEDs

The Hilltop can breathe a little bit easier knowing that additional life saving measures are in place in the event of an emergency.

Earlier this month, Student Senate announced they would be receiving three newly donated Automated External Defibrillators (AED) from Advanced Medical Transport of Central Illinois (AMT) to install on campus. An AMT representative brought the AEDs to campus Monday and expressed how students can further help be prepared for emergencies regarding the use of AEDs.

Greg Chance, the vice president of strategy for AMT, delivered the AEDs and addressed the importance of being able to have access to AEDs.

We were so appreciative when we heard from [Student Senate advisor Brad] McMillan that the student leadership here on the campus felt like they wanted more AEDs on campus,” Chance said. “And I am confident that is in recognition of the challenges that may be presented when there is a sudden cardiac arrest on campus to ensure that we do have the resources here locally for bystanders to intervene in a positive manner while they are waiting for emergency medical services to arrive on the scene.”

Chance also addressed AMT’s development of a new smartphone app called “PulsePoint”, which notifies people of emergency situations requiring the use of an AED or CPR in close proximity.

We believe the more people that we have utilizing an AED and performing hands-only CPR while waiting for EMS to arrive on the scene will increase that survivor rate,” Chance said.

Chance said the app is important in helping save lives during sudden cardiac arrest on the critical first five minutes of the attack.

The corporate initiative to increase survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest starts with community bystander assistance,” Chance said. “You can only rely on emergency medical services so much. Those first five minutes of sudden cardiac arrest are critical.”

According to Chance, the app will give students an extra safety measure to utilize.

[PulsePoint] would provide [Bradley students] the resources not only here on campus, but while in the Peoria community,” Chance said. “I am hopeful, because they have been trained, that they will then immediately respond to that area to provide that bystander assistance within the initial minutes of that sudden cardiac arrest while ambulances are en route.”

The app launched in early June 2016, and about 800 people have downloaded the app and are active in PulsePoint, according to Chance.

For more information and to download the app visit www.amtci.org/pulsepoint.html.

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