Guides

Emergency guides & guided action

What to do in the minutes before professional help arrives.

  • Step-by-step instructions that can be read aloud
  • Visual demonstrations for critical procedures
  • Voice assistance and spoken pacing, including CPR compression pacing
  • Guides attached to the incident type, so the right one opens first
  • Companion guides attached to a resource — how to use the kit in front of you
  • Frequently asked questions and field reference material
  • 296 emergency guides across 11 categories — CPR/AED, overdose, stroke, trauma, fire and rescue, mental health, safety, water rescue, weather, preparedness and more

The guide library is written in numbered steps a frightened person can follow out loud, covering how to act and how to recognize what is in front of them. Guides are reachable from an incident, from a resource, or on their own.

Guidance is reference material and never a substitute for emergency care. It is offered to help someone act sensibly while waiting for professional help, within their own training and ability.

296 guides · 11 categories
Open the guide libraryGuides open inside the application, with read-aloud and step images.

The detail behind it

5 sectionsOpen any one to read it.

The guides are written for a frightened person doing something for the first time, with one hand occupied: numbered steps, short sentences, and the next action before the explanation.

  • 296 guides across 11 categories
  • CPR and AED, bleeding control, overdose, choking, stroke recognition, burns, fractures, heat and cold, water rescue, fire and safety, mental health and preparedness
  • Written to be read aloud, and paced for the person following it
  • Available from an incident, from a resource, or on their own

Everything here describes the platform as built, subject to the configuration decisions of the community or agency using it.

Support this work

Free for the people who need it, anywhere it runs.

It is not tied to one town or one county: a department, agency or community anywhere in the country or the world can run it. Residents are never charged. Departments pay for the parts they use, and donations let us put more resources into a community that could not otherwise afford them.

  • · Defibrillators, naloxone and bleeding-control kits
  • · Guides, voice instructions and training material
  • · Mapping the equipment a community already has
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