Alife-saving smartphone app has launched in South Australia to help people in cardiac arrest access CPR sooner, potentially sending aid within seconds of a Triple Zero (000) call.
GoodSAM – an SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) backed app – launched yesterday and will be initially supported by SAAS staff and volunteers, before being extended to health professionals, emergency services personnel and people with first aid training.
If there is a cardiac arrest nearby, an alert will be sent to registered responders who can accept the call and head to the scene to provide emergency care while an ambulance is on the way.
The GoodSAM system can identify if any responders are in the vicinity of the emergency and sends an alert to the three closest responders.
If one or more of those responders accept the alert, the GoodSAM system sends them the location details and they go straight there to commence CPR.
In the Adelaide CBD, GoodSAM can alert responders who are within 400 metres, while in the broader metropolitan area and regional cities, it would alert responders within 600 metres.
In regional areas the response radius is 5km for regional towns and up to 15km in more remote locations.
