CPR Competition System

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for managing rescue training includes registering a plurality of individuals as potential rescue trainees through a central computer server system, receiving from computing devices that are remote from the central server system information indicative of rate and depth of compression for ones of the potential rescue trainees, and generating comparative data that reflects performance of CPR chest compressions for a first rescue trainee against other rescue trainees. The method also includes providing the comparative data over a network for review by one or more of the rescue trainees.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELDThis document relates to computer-based systems and techniques for providing competitions between individuals and / or teams in the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).BACKGROUNDSudden cardiac arrest (colloquially “heart attack”) is a regular killer. The best treatment for cardiac arrest is quick and competent chest compressions to keep blood flowing through a victim's heart. Generally, every minute of delay in treating a cardiac arrest victim lowers the chance of survival by about ten percent. As a result, provision of CPR by people who are near the victim when the cardiac arrest begins, and until more advanced life support personnel can arrive, is crucial to survival rates for cardiac arrest.Recognizing that critical CPR can come from lay people at the site of a cardiac arrest even more than from professional responders who may take many minutes to arrive, various organizations have promoted CPR training for lay people for decades. Such training may occ...

Images