automated external defibrillator

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...
By  Neil Versel 02:44 pm March 21, 2012
The iPad can't administer a lifesaving electrical jolt to the heart – yet – but a new app teaches people how to do so with the help of an automated external defibrillator (AED). Croatian emergency physician Ivor Kovic and his company, Ivor Medical, recently released the AED Trainer app, which simulates operation of an actual AED, the portable device that allows medical professionals, emergency...