A CPRPrompt In Your Hand
A few years ago, two nurses from the next court started CPR when I went down at the end of an extremely competitive pickleball game. After four-minutes of compressions and breaths that kept my blood circulating, a trainer rushed in with a defibrillator that sparked me back to life. Three-hours later surgeons at Baystate Medical placed a stent in my "widow maker" artery.
Over 40 years ago, I patented a wall-mounted, electronic device that offered a calm digitized voice leading trained rescuers through CPR to standards established by the American Heart Association. Thousands of CPRPrompt commercial units were sold and mounted on the walls of plants, offices, and schools. An investment group purchased rights to the electronic CPRPrompt with a plan of converting the commercial model into a less expensive consumer product. The investment group was unsuccessful and CPR voice prompting has remained dormant for decades.
As I lay in bed at Baystate Health recovering from the heart attack, I dreamed that I could create a mobile phone app and put instant-prompting in the hand of every CPR trained rescuer. Now my dream is being is being realized as we introduce CPRPrompt-Adult, CPRPrompt-Baby, and CPRPrompt-Child. Download one or all three of these free Apps to refresh the CPR skills you may need in an emergency.
Click this youtube link to see the original wall-mounted CPRPrompt in action: https.www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUEkX1N1NOUbQ.