A model already proven, and how ours works
Community response is not new — PulsePoint shows it works.
Onslow Priority uses a 0.65-mile proximity radius to alert eligible nearby responders and connect them with medical emergencies. Alerts are determined by four factors: proximity, designated alert locations, user roles and permissions, and emergency-resource ownership.
Unlike systems focused primarily on cardiac arrest, Onslow Priority supports a broader range of time-critical emergencies — severe bleeding, overdose, drowning, anaphylaxis and heatstroke — while allowing responders to communicate with emergency services. Every minute matters, and delayed intervention can worsen outcomes.
PulsePoint's figures are PulsePoint's, as published in the project presentation. They are the clearest evidence that alerting trained people who are already nearby works at scale, which is the mechanism this platform is built on.
PulsePoint, a cardiac-arrest CPR and AED bystander-alerting system used across North Carolina and nationwide, shows the community-response model already works.
Figures are PulsePoint's published and reported numbers as cited in the project presentation. They are context for why the model matters, not results of Onslow Priority.
The detail behind it
3 sectionsOpen any one to read it.PulsePoint answers the question this project kept being asked — whether alerting trained members of the public actually works at scale — and its published numbers are why the platform is built on the same premise rather than on an argument.
- Thousands of communities have connected their 911 systems to it
- Community responders reach patients measurably sooner than professional crews alone
- Bystander CPR rates rise well above the national benchmark where it operates
- Public-access AED use rises well above the national benchmark
Everything here describes the platform as built, subject to the configuration decisions of the community or agency using it.
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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