In Switzerland 0.4 suffer every year to 1% of the population one cardiovascular arrest; ie up to 8000 people per year.
In addition to chest compressions and ventilation early defibrillation is one of the cornerstones of a successful resuscitation. AED devices are public access defibrillators and can be operated not only by professionals. Immediately after the occurrence of such an event up to 80% of the persons concerned would reanimierbar by immediately initiated measures.
But in fact survived in 2005 throughout Switzerland only 5% of patients had a cardiac arrest.
The geographical distribution of the population and also the bases of the emergency services are very different. Critical to the survival, the rapid alerting of the professional rescue services and immediately started and continued without interruption resuscitation.
To people with a sudden heart - to reach as quickly as humanly possible cardiac arrest, voluntary groups were recruited and trained by the regional emergency services, which are alerted to events by the medical emergency center 144 Bern.
With this application voluntary lay rescuers will be alerted in the region of the emergency in seconds, which can shorten the therapy-free interval solid until the arrival of the emergency service. With this application, more First Responder can be alerted in less time and more quickly. In Ticino, the probability of survival rose to a sudden heart - cardiac arrest more than 40%.