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PulsePoint in Cape Girardeau, Missouri: A Community Collaborate Project to Enhance Early Heart Attack Care - Kleffner-Pfau
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In this video, Monica Kleffner-Fau, the Chest Pain Center Coordinator at St. Francis Healthcare System in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, presents on the PulsePoint project. PulsePoint is a community collaborative project aimed at enhancing early heart attack care. The purpose of the project is to engage the community in providing early hands-only CPR and defibrillation to heart attack victims before emergency medical services (EMS) arrive, effectively decreasing mortality and morbidity rates. The project involves using the PulsePoint app to alert CPR-trained responders in the community when someone nearby is in need of CPR. Responders can choose whether or not to respond to the alert and are given a walking map to the victim's location and the nearest automated external defibrillator (AED) location. The video discusses the challenges faced in implementing the project, such as integrating the web-based program into the computer-aided dispatch system, mapping existing AEDs, and engaging the public. It also highlights the accomplishments of the project, including the placement of 30 new AEDs, training 263 individuals, and gaining 803 followers on PulsePoint. The video concludes by discussing future plans to continue promoting PulsePoint, increasing AED access, and expanding the project county-wide.
Keywords
PulsePoint project
early heart attack care
CPR-trained responders
automated external defibrillator
AED location
community collaborative project
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