You’re walking down the road and see someone having a heart attack on the floor. You’re panicking, calling 999 and trying to explain to the operator what’s happening. An ambulance is dispatched but will take (on average) 8-15 minutes to arrive.  After 4 minutes, each minute that passes will decrease that person’s chance of survival by 10%. Only 7% of sudden cardiac arrest victims survive.
Let’s revisit that situation.
You’re walking down the road and see someone having a heart attack on the floor. You get out your smartphone and activate the iHELP emergency care network (made up of users of the app as well as volunteers with first aid training). The app relays all emergency information to users and rescuers within 300m of your location as well as calling the emergency services for you.
That’s great but how does it help?
While a CPR trained rescuer races to your location, a layman (user of the app) can go to the nearest defibrillator location and bring it to you, improving the chances of survival.  As well as this, iHELP is the only app that gives you a report of how many users received the notification as well as who’s responding and their current location! It’s not nice being in that situation with no idea when help is coming.
iHELP will notify both users/rescuers in your area and the emergency services in an emergency situation.
But I don’t know how to act in that situation. What do I do?
iHELP has you covered there too. We have an Education section where we have various topics that will be helpful to know in an emergency situation. Sections include:
- Reviving an adult
- Reviving a child
- Severe Arterial bleeding
- Amputations
As well as saving lives, iHELP will bring communities together. The more users that the app has, the safer your area will be. iHELP will also be supplying defibrillators all over the UK, being actively involved in raising the statistics of sudden cardiac arrest survival rates.
It also has location triggers. Have an elderly relative with dementia? You can set up a location trigger so if/when your relative leaves their house, you’ll be notified. If they then decide to wander off, you can notify users of the app within the area and send them an accompanying photo to help find him.
It’s not all about medical emergencies though. Lost your cat? You can easily send a photo of your cat to users within 300m with details on how they can bring him/her back to you.
Get downloading, you could be one to save a life or have life saved, you can also follow iHELP on Facebook and Twitter!
