LifePad A Life Safety Phone

A LifePad phone

Life Safety in high rise facilities Early intervention effectively does not exist in high rises As city traffic has grown, so too has the response time required for ambulance and fire vehicles – and high rises take ~2.7 min more Patient access now estimated at 10-15 minutes from the “event” As with fire, cardiac and related emergencies must be addressed in the earliest minutes or may not be retrievable Passive, standalone deployment of AEDs etc. has been a failure in large facilities, communications support is required

Leveraging the scale of high rises Large facilities present challenges for EMS vehicular access, yet many advantages for onsite responses Patient access can be as short as 2-3 minutes from event onset Responses by EMRs with pass keys and volunteers Elevators speed access to patients and equipment One EMR (responder) can protect adjacent buildings as well EMS arrival consolidates rescues with aftercare, patient transport Pressure relieved on EMS/9-1-1 dispatch and overcommitted vehicles Qualifies “emergencies” vs less urgent calls for 9-1-1 PSAPs

A direct Rescue STRATEGY The Lend-to-End Protocol offers the shortest route possible, with obvious benefits A victim or witness senses a medical emergency, and presses the cellphone icon A LifePad at Security receives a loud text alert, including suite number. Responder enters the “key control” room, for a medical bag with an AED, Naloxone, oxygen, bandages etc and takes the elevator Opens the suite door within 2-3 minutes and assesses the emergency, updates EMS This direct “cut to the chase” solution is likely to become the standard for security in the Green Buildings movement. Heart safety is the root of life safety that cellular enables.

Centralizing onsite communications The LifePad is the first life safety phone, and introduces fixed cellular as a new form factor – allowing victims to text a device or place instead of a person The device is deployed as a front desk or security station phone A Lifepad is a Blackberry Passport “phablet” affixed over a 110V outlet, supported by a cloud network (Blackberry Enterprise Server 12) Network connection is to a cellular voice account, with its own phone number Integrated with cloud-based telephony and database repositories Configurable for EMS, e9-1-1 local infrastructure and procedures A partner for AEDs that anchors their efficient and reliable deployment

Making RESCUES ROUTINE NOT RARE Because a LifePad can receive texts (and to date EMS Dispatch cannot) a victim can summon help with a single icon press on their own. The text will include the exact address of the victim, not just GPS coordinates – the LifePad’s primary purpose is to protect residents and workers Pre-composed texts may contain volunteered medical and risk disclosure for that person to inform the responder of underlying conditions Unwitnessed cardiac, overdose, bleeding, breathing, allergic, shock etc. events leave the patient themselves a chance to signal security if they are conscious Severe organ damage such as TBI and paralysis mitigated with short response times

Opportunity for MeDICAL SURVEILLANCE Unprecedented opportunities for Surveillance and data related to early intervention,stroke intervention, drug trials, efficacy and outcomes Studies of best practices around survival – not morbidity. Less reliance on AED registries or public access defibrillation stations if a facility has LifePad signaling BCLS training can be centered on security personnel, improving their skills and wages Late-career EMS paramedics can continue by mentoring students, and impart an understanding of local EMS infrastructure, policies, protocols and patient realities Documented safety improvements will justify a transition away from over-reliance on expensive vehicle rolls for unwarranted calls – saving municipalities millions