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LifeCompass
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Having the best trained, equipped and motivated medics ready to race to save someone’s life is useless unless you have a system in place that locates, alerts and guides the medic to the scene in the quickest and most efficient fashion. The LifeCompass system draws a virtual perimeter around an incident that is entered into the system. It then alerts only the medics in a predetermined radius to the incident.
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This ensures that all other volunteers are not disturbed by the constant chatter of a walkie-talkie system. Each volunteer knows that when the LifeCompass alerts him, it is because he is in the immediate vicinity of an emergency incident. Complete GPS guidance to the scene and complete recording capabilities ensure that every incident is responded to and recorded. The scope and depth of this eminently scalable system is so powerful and flexible that it is appreciated by dispatchers, responders and the people whose lives are saved.
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The LifeCompass technology was developed based on the needs and specifications of the United Hatzalah and has proven to be so successful that it has been adopted by other Hatzalah and rescue organizations around the world. It has received many awards and accolades locally and internationally. The technology is now being licensed and developed for adaption for a wide range of rescue purposes. |
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| The goal of United Hatzalah is to have a trained and fully equipped volunteer within 90 seconds of every Israeli, thus increasing the number of lives saved. In order to accomplish this United Hatzalah needs to grow its volunteer corps to 3000, supply each volunteer with a defibrillator, and expand its ambucycle fleet to 500. |
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| The on scene arrival of an ambulance in Israel can be up to 10 minutes (20 minutes in rural areas), compared to anywhere between 6-8 minutes in large US cities. Without a conventional and centralized "911" system in Israel, United Hatzalah is the national first responder network. By arriving on scene in less than 3 minutes, United Hatzalah volunteers fill the time gap between the emergency and the arrival of an ambulance. |
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| When seconds count, immediate treatment is often the difference between life and death. With every minute that defibrillation is delayed in instances of cardiac arrest due to heart attack, electrocution, drowning, choking, trauma and illegal drugs, survival rates decrease approximately 7% to 10%. |
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| Source: American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care |
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