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Concurrent Block #5

911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement

Making the Case for New Approaches to AED Registries

The Power of Multi-Agency Responding - GoodSAM linking Police to Cardiac Arrests

Friday, December 1, 2023
11:00 AM – 11:25 AM PST
Location: Town and Country Ballroom B

    Primary Presenter(s)

  • Mark H. Wilson, PhD MBBChir FRCS MRCA FIMC OBE

    Professor of Brain Injury, Consultant Neurosurgeon
    Imperial College London
    London, England, United Kingdom

    Disclosure(s): GoodSAM: I do not have a financial interest - I am an unpaid director of GoodSAM (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing)

    • Co-Presenter(s)

  • CP

    Chris Postill

    Special Sergeant
    BCH Police / GoodSAM
    London, England, United Kingdom

    Disclosure information not submitted.

    • Moderator(s)

  • Kimberly K. Harkins, MPH

    Center for Resuscitation Medicine Program Director
    University of Minnesota
    Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

Disclosure(s):
Mark H. Wilson, PhD MBBChir FRCS MRCA FIMC OBE: GoodSAM: I do not have a financial interest - I am an unpaid director of GoodSAM (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing)
Summary: Learn how GoodSAM when integrated with police services in the East of England, resulted in 48 ROSCs over a one- year period (2022). Many other benefits of police response are also reported.

Synopsis: Smartphone activation of registered first aiders to nearby cardiac arrests occurs across many countries. In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, GoodSAM partners with many different agencies (including emergency agencies) to optimize response.

Here we report the the utilization of GoodSAM by three police forces (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire) across the East of England in 2022. We show that:

• 48 incidents of cardiac arrest resulted in ROSC directly from Police intervention prior to Ambulance arrival.
• 2,740 different officers were assigned an alert with 440 accepting
• 53% of successful outcomes were by off-duty officers, 47% by on-duty officers
• 81% of officers felt attendance was worthwhile regardless of outcome
• On 66% of occasions the officer was on scene in 30 minutes or less

In many cases when the patient was not in cardiac arrest, the officers helped in other ways, such as the administration of Naloxone to opiod overdose patients, the assistance of other emergency services and crowd control.

Learning Objectives:

  • How community and technology combined in a highly governed system saves lives.
  • How governance can enable tailoring of cardiac arrest response.
  • This presentation will include ways to educate citizens that can lead to a comprehensive change to a culture of excellence and improved CPR training in the community, schools and workplace.
  • This presentation will discuss how to implement three (3) elements of a comprehensive dispatch CPR and/or rapid dispatch program.
  • This presentation will discuss ways to advance Public Access AED placement and utilization.
  • This presentation will include components of a high quality collaborative cardiovascular and resuscitation program in a dispatch, EMS and / or healthcare system that has demonstrated improvement in survival from SCA.
  • This presentation will include strategies for implementing data collection and quality improvement programs in an ECC system to support accountability and reporting.
  • This presentation will describe one or more survivor / rescuer stories that can be used to illustrate an effective chain of survival for cardiac arrest.