AED

A woman holding the Avive device that is displaying a map
By  Emily Olsen 01:41 pm March 21, 2022
Avive Solutions, maker of a connected automated external defibrillator, has scooped up $22 million in Series A financing. The round was led by Questa Capital, Catalyst Health Ventures and returning investor Laerdal Million Lives Fund. WHAT IT DOES The startup offers a connected AED that alerts users nearby when it receives reports of potential cardiac arrest in their area.  As part of a...
By  Jonah Comstock 10:16 am August 12, 2014
Los Angeles County in California has become the latest county to implement a mobile app to crowdsource lifesaving CPR, as reported in a recent story in the LA Times. The app, called PulsePoint, is made and distributed by automated external defibrillator (AED) company Physio-Control. "PulsePoint allows citizens that are trained in CPR to receive an alert at the same time as our dispatch center for...