iRescU Information

To get to the iRescU site on your smart phone, point your smart phone to scan the image below
after you have downloaded free TagReader from your App store or http://gettag.mobi

The iRescU CPR/AED App system: A bridge between saving lives and social media,
designed to put the skills of CPR and AED location and use easily into our hands.

If you would like to download a brochure about the "iRescU: Saving Lives and Data" project please click on this brochure image below

**HOT OFF the PRESS**
Valentines Day Special iRescU event held to recognize the recipients of the inaugural iRescU AED geoLocation Scavenger Hunt Challenge Awards!
The Award Ceremony was held in New York City, at the New York Athletic Club, during Social Media Week.
Awards of a Defibrillator were presented for each AED Scavenger Hunt Challenge Winner - Linda Cotter Forbes and Kim Traut, and an iPad awarded to the current record breaking efforts of individual efforts of 81 and 68 AED geolocations.
The Rhinebeck, NY team out performed all locations by geolocating a total of 139 AEDs, of the hundreds of AEDs that the iRescU Challenges have geolocated to date.

iRescU was delighted to have the AED Awards presented to the Challenge Winners by two of the nations leading SCA foundations. Mary Newman, President of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation presented the November 2011 iRescU Challenge Winning Award, and Bonnie Arkus President of the Womens Heart Foundation,presented the world record breaking AED geolocation winning Award for the December 2011 iRescU Challenge.

Many thanks to all who made this possible and particularly those who participlated in this impressive effort at geolocating AEDs - a record breaking effort, and a great contribution to society!!

Announcement of the December mHealth Summit "iRescU AED geoLocation Challenge" winners !
A truly impressive response - and a world record breaking effort - with the lead prize contenders having identified dozens of AEDs
- for the first prize, geolocating a total of 81 AEDs, came from yet again Rhinebeck, NY, more than double the November Challenge's winning tally!!
The second place winner has been a huge solo North American AED scavenger hunt globetrott - by Brittany Bogle - a grad student in Chicago with 68 AED geoLocations!
Given Brittany's impressive solo effort, she has been given an opportunity to participate in the iRescU project team.
The runners up have also had an impressive tally also:
- Darren Forbes, with another 21 AEDs from the also of Rhinebeck, NY
- Alex Galvino, Rockville, MD, with 17
- Jim Foster, of Anchorage, Alaska with 17
- Lori Severson, of Denver Colorado with 10
And a big thank you to the many who sent in their AED pics and locations, and particularly those from all around the world, the first entry actually came in from the Amsterdam Airport!

Standby for info about that next AED geoLocation Challenge event.

To have AED locations uploaded anytime,
Its as easy as 1., 2. , and 3. to participate!

So get out your cameras and phones, take those pics and upload those AED locations to:
http://www.irescu.info/AEDupload.htm (or scan eTag below)

1. Find an AED - ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD -
2. Take a pic with your camera or phone and
3. Upload the pic and location info to this site - http://www.iRescU.info/AEDupload.htm (scan eTag below)
(or just email it to AEDupload@iRescU.info).
The AED Upload eTag

to get the AED upload form directly on your smartphone,
you can scan the etag above right from your screen with your phone (using the free Microsoft Tag App)
or click the image to link to access the form on your PC to upload an AED geolocation anytime

***iRescU was presented as a platform presentation at 2011 mHealth Summit, December 5th, Washington DC***

iRescU's Booth 528 generated much interest, in seeing how easy it is to save a life and to enhance the power of the community to do so too
To download iRescU presentation from Monday Dec 5th - Click this link iRescU: Bridging Social Media and Saving Lives - Logistics and Implementation of a Two-way Global Cloud Based Life Saving Platform in the Real World

*Thanks to all who joined in the iRescU AED Location Challenge November 12-15th*
The winning prize of an AED, for the most AEDs geolocated during the challenge goes to:
**Linda Cotter-Forbes, of Rhinebeck, NY ** with 37 tagged AEDs!!
there are 5 runners up who are to receive eTagged AED Upload T-Shirts:
Linda Dickson
Connie Carmany
Wendy Long
John Brown
Philip McGovern

***The iRescU was presented at the American Heart Association 2011 ReSS symposium November 12-13, Orlando***

The iRescU presentations at AHA ReSS in Orlando - at the Best Original Resuscitation Science Poster Session and Luncheon, were very well received
CPR/AED Apps: What's Out There and Are They a Reliable Source of Public Lifesaving Information?
iRescU---Saving Lives and Data: A New Multiplatform App to Integrate Social Media and Bridge Logistic Challenges in the Chain of Survival

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*also Profiled in AM-NY April 2011*

and in EMS World, Technology section February 2011

Click on the button below to receive iRescU App development bulletins
or to sign up to be a pilot test site
or click or scan the eTag with your smartphone

iRescU signup eTag

To contact the iRescU Development Team - email - nadine@iRescU.info
or call 917 992 2979

The iRescU team presented at the Emergency Cardiac Care Update (ECCU) 2010 International Education Conference in San Diego December 8-10.
**ECCU 2010 International Education Conference and Exposition**
The iRescU Project, is one of few CPR App projects presented at ECCU 2010 .
The iRescU team shared the Apps development, features, research dimensions and dissemination plans with the ECCU 2010 attendees:

- at both the ECCU poster session
- and at a platform presentation at the Lightening Rounds.
"CPR App development: A bridge between saving lives and social media"

To download and view the poster or presentation handout please click the relevant image above.

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The iRescU Project, one of only 40 selected mHealth Technology Demonstration Projects was presented with much interest at the 2010 mHealth Summit's Tech Demo Pavilion.
The iRescU team shared the Apps development, features and research dimensions with the mHealth Summit attendees. A Sign up link is above to receive iRescU App bulletins.
From the iRescU Team and consortium of the EMS Safety Foundation and First Aid Corps