AHS EMS vs Save

The Alberta Emergency Medical Services Medical Control Protocols app for iOS devices provides emergency medical providers access to easy-to-use Alberta Health Services Protocols (Medical Control, Medical First Response, Incident Response and Critical Care Medical Control) specifically designed for use in the pre-hospital environment. This app includes adult and pediatric algorithms as well as necessary reference material and pharmacology information, including infusion charts, resource information, and provincial contacts. This app provides government-related information (from Alberta Health Services Emergency Medical Services at https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/ems/ems.aspx) that is generated and published from AHSEMS.com (https://www.ahsems.com). App information is also publicly available at https://protocols.ahsems.com.

Save a Life provides defibrillator mapping and citizen responders management. The App maps over 320.000 defibrillators worldwide. Main features include: - St. John Ambulance First Aid reference Guide - AED location : locate the 10 closest AEDs near you or in a specific address, through the use of a live database that is updated each time you launch the application. - Reporting of new AED. You can post new defibrillators and now even edit existing ones. - Citizen Responders network: If you are trained to CPR you can register through the App as a Citizen Responder. You can then be notified by the EMS in case of cardiac arrest near you to provide CPR. - The reminding of CPR gesture with video illustration of the survival chain "Call, Start CPR, Shock and wait for help" - A practical guide on the use of Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). - An "Emergency" mode that will help you to make the right things in the right order. The new emergency mode detects automatically the local number depending on you location. --- The location and the list of defibrillators supplied by this application are given as an indication. Please note that this application is interactive and that the data provided by users will not be checked by a dedicated organization. FDBS and Saint John ambulance are not liable for any errors in the locations of defibrillators. ***************************************************************** Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. ***************************************************************** Developed by FDBS - www.bon-samaritain.org