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Originally Posted by neilbcox
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When you call 911 in The Villages a dispatcher will answer your call. They will establish knowledge of what is happening and electronically notify the correct emergency teams. If this caller informs the dispatcher that the person they are calling has NO pulse and NO breathing (called a cardio arrest event) the dispatcher will immediately notify both The Villages Medical Emergency Rescue teams at the same time they will notify all village trained responders that live within 1/2 mile from the patient with a text message from Pulse Point Application to respond. This Pulse Point shows on a Map where the patient is located and the closest AED system from them. On an average in 2023 in the Villages have 6.28 responders going to every Cardio Arrest event (66 events). In our Village all responders will show up at the emergency property within a targeted 3 minute response and immediately start CPR while one of the responders will go retrieve an AED unit and brings it back to the emergency property. FYI…when CPR is done right it can be exhausting so with other responders there at the home they will take turns administering CPR.
Please note that the villages trained responders will only be dispatched to Cardio Arrest Events. The AED responders are NOT trained to treat heart attacks or stokes. We are not trained to issue any injection medications…EMRs are trained to do this work. All dispatchers stay on line with the 911 caller asking them to turn porch lights on and unlock the doors.
An example for December 2023 The Villages totally, there were 18 cardiac Arrest with 16 AED group cardiac arrests.
Hope this clarifies The Villages AED program!
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That’s how it works for SOME Villages AED programs. We have Ready Alert. We do not dispatch everyone within a half mile. We dispatch the responders within a defined zone. We have over 100 responders in our village. We don’t want them all showing up. In fact once the first seven show up we start turning people away. In our response we stop and grab any AED on our way to the incident. It takes about 20 seconds. Again since we’re dispatching a defined zone not all 19 of our AED’s are going to get picked up. We leave the box door open so anyone that follows can see that it’s already been picked up. We average under 2 minutes for a responder to arrive and under 2.5 minutes for an AED to arrive. We almost always have two or more AED’s show up. The bottom line is we get people and equipment there very quickly. But you need to realize that not every program works the same.