Emergency services worldwide face increasing cost pressure that potentially limits their
existing resources. In many countries, emergency services also face the issues of staff …

In countries such as Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, projects in which
volunteers are dispatched to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients with the use of …

In emergency response volunteer programs, volunteers in the vicinity of an emergency are
alerted via their mobile phones to the scene of the event to perform a specific task. Tasks are …

In community first responder (CFR) systems, traditional emergency service response is
augmented by a network of trained volunteers who are dispatched via an app. A central …

Background Smartphone-based emergency response apps are increasingly being used to
identify and dispatch volunteer first responders (VFRs) to medical emergencies to provide …

Various initiatives are in place worldwide to reduce the time from the occurrence of an out-of-
hospital cardiac arrest to the start of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation …

Out of hospital cardiac arrest requires immediate treatment and patient survival can be
improved by combining traditional ambulance response with the dispatch of volunteers …

Hartslagnu is a system for alerting volunteers in cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
(OHCA). We used simulation to analyze and improve the alerting algorithm in terms of which …

Digitalization has transformed the public sector and ICT has enabled the pooling of
emergency response resources. Here, we explore and compare three cases of cross-sector …

Abstract In Community First Responder (CFR) systems, trained volunteers (CFRs) located
near patients augment traditional emergency services by responding to alerts via a mobile …