Life-saving CPR performed after mobile app notifies nearby off-duty firefighter

CLACKAMAS, Ore. - On Friday, May 9, 2014 off-duty firefighter Scott Brawner was working out at a local health club when he received an alert through PulsePoint, a 9-1-1 connected mobile app designed to alert CPR-trained citizens of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) emergencies in their proximity. This alert saved a man's life. Using the map presented by the PulsePoint app, Scott immediately made his way to the reported patient location. In less than a minute, Scott found the man unconscious in the parking lot outside of the health facility where a security guard had first found him unresponsive and called 9-1-1. Scott immediately assessed and began hands-only CPR. He continued providing chest compressions until paramedics from American Medical Response (AMR) and Clackamas Fire

District #1 arrived to provide advanced care. "As a fire fighter I know that every minute that passes without a SCA victim receiving resuscitation, the chances of that person surviving decrease 10 percent." said Scott Brawner, Firefighter/Paramedic with Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (TVF&R). "By adopting PulsePoint, agencies are removing much of the fate and luck in survival by involving CPR-trained citizen rescuers in cardiac arrest response."
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, at Adventist Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, Scott had the opportunity to meet the man he had saved just a week prior. His name is Drew Basse, a 57-year-old truck driver from Milwaukie, Oregon. Scott also met Drew's son Shane, 31, and daughter Staci, 27. It was an emotional meeting filled with gratitude and appreciation as Drew is expected to fully recover with no loss of cognitive function because CPR was administered so quickly. The family was especially interested in learning more about the "miracle app" they had heard played such a key role in Drew's survival.

"This app saved my Dad's life," said Shane Basse, "We're so grateful to the PulsePoint Foundation for creating this life-saving app, Scott Brawner for his heroic actions and Clackamas Fire for not only their quick response, but for adopting this technology." "The PulsePoint app did its job by alerting a Good Samaritan simultaneously with the dispatch of our crews, " said Bill Conway, EMS Officer for Clackamas Fire District #1.

"This incredibly positive outcome is why Clackamas Fire, like so many organizations throughout the U.S., invested in this type of technology." The app on Scott's phone is from the non-profit PulsePoint Foundation. The app is designed to reduce collapse-to-CPR and collapse-to-defibrillation times by increasing citizen awareness of cardiac events beyond a traditional "witnessed" area and by displaying the precise location of nearby public access defibrillators (AEDs).

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