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Friday, October 23, 2009

AED Location Database Points to Nearest Life Saving Device

Filed under: Public Health

Automatic external defibrillators (AED's) are becoming more common in public places like airports, theaters, and sports stadiums. To be effective, you must quickly find the nearest AED while in an unfamiliar environment, a task that's not immediately obvious when seconds count. Bertalan Meskó at ScienceRoll is reporting that Lucien Engelen, a technologist at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Holland, has a project to geolocate AEDs, and make the data available for mobile browsers. Additionally, you can use a location aware application like the Layar Reality Browser to pinpoint immediately where the AED is located in your vicinity.

Link: AED4EU...

Product page: Layar Reality Browser

(hat tip: ScienceRoll)

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Thanks for referencing our effort to get a complete insight in AED's in the Netherlands.
Allready we have found a partner for the US (to be announced soon) and talking to contacts for Asia and Russia.
As a Health 2.0 ambassador (not technologist ;-) we are trying to get this information as rich as possible through crowdsourcing.
Expect to announce other way's of presenting then the ones we're using right now : website and Layar (www.layar.com) in very near future.

More info at www.aed4.eu or @aed4eu on twitter

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Mr. L.J.L.P.G. Engelen,
Head of Acute Healthcare Network; Advisory to the Executive board &
Health 2.0 ambassador.



Posted by: lucien Engelen
on October 25, 2009 07:06 AM GMT

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