How to improve automated external defibrillator placement for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

Saturday, December 2, 2023

10:50 AM – 11:15 AM PST

Location: Sunset Rooms 1 - 3

Primary Presenter(s)

Fabrice Dami, MD, MBA (he/him/his)

Senior emergency physician; Medical director Lausanne medical Dispatch
Lausanne University Hospital Centre, Switzerland
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):

Fabrice Dami: No financial relationships to disclose

Summary: You’ll learn a method to evaluate the efficiency of AEDs coverage in an urban and
rural territory. It shows how to relocate AEDs that are inefficiently placed (overlapping) to main hotspots (location of many OHCAs) areas.

Synopsis: In out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs), the use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) by a bystander remains low, as AEDs may be misplaced with respect to the locations of OHCAs. As the distribution of historical OHCAs is potentially predictive of future OHCA locations, it is of prime importance to assess AED positioning with regard to past locations of OHCAs, in order to improve the efficiency of PAD programs. It allows program mangers to decide wether to add new AEDs or remove supernumerary AEDs to new locations.

Learning Objectives:

To set an active health monitoring on cardiac arrest locations.
To set an active watch on AED location (public AND private AED).
To not only add new AEDs where necessary, but also move those supernumerary to new places.
This presentation will discuss ways to advance Public Access AED placement and utilization.