EMS Emission

Providing free Basic-Life-Support (BLS), CPR, and other basic medical treatment knowledge and training/certification to rural and low income communities all over the world.

Cardiac arrest cases outside of hospitals increases each year. Recognition of a person going into cardiac arrest and taking action with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can increase the chances of living long enough for professionals to help by 80%. This percentage is increased by the usages of automated external defibrillation (AED). Lessening the time between the start of cardiac arrest to arrival to a hospital or EMT assistance is crucial to increasing survival times; immediate CPR action can increase survival likelihood by 200%.

In more urban areas, the vicinity between hospitals is much closer, thus earlier emergency medical assistance is more readily available. Although this is not the case in rural areas. In developed, first world countries, the CPR rate by bystanders was 30-50%. This percentage was only approximately 11. 41% in Asian nations, and a city in Iran recorded a low 4% of CPR action by bystanders . One study recorded the lowest third of the world's nations had an annual CPR training rate average of less than 1.29%; this group included the most rural and poor countries. The middle third had an annual rate of 1.29-4.07%. The highest/richest third has an annual average of greater than 4.07%. Within the United States, cities in the Northeast had higher rates of CPR training than places in the West, South, and Midwest. Studies have shown that black and Hispanic communities were more likely to not have received CPR training.

The problem of people's reluctance to act is usually due to the fear of harming the person in cardiac arrest even more, lack of knowledge of how to execute CPR, and fear of being sued. Teaching people around the world how to look out for cardiac arrest and immediately acting with CPR will help bystanders gain the confidence to step in when needed. Not only does cardiac arrest affect the heart, but also the brain. Initiating CPR earlier can potentially lessen neurological damage. Cardiac arrest can happen anywhere, with the population at most risk being those aged 60 and above, although even asymptomatic people in their 30s and 40s can experience it. Teaching Basic Life Skills (BLS), such as: chest compressions, assessment of breathing and airway, and use of an AED (defibrillator) can also increase odds of survival. Educating on cardiac arrest and heart attack symptoms will help bystanders identify earlier, and act earlier.

The solution entails having people who are already CPR/BLS certified to travel to poorer and more rural areas who report significantly less CPR training on average to teach them the needed emergency skills. Technologies include using statistics databases for specific counties to report an estimate on the CPR/BLS certified people there, so an adequate amount of equipment and people can come to help train them. Advertisements in online or physical media and locations can help spread what CPR/BLS is, so more people will be inclined to learn about it and become certified. Teaching technologies include automated external defibrillators, bag-mask ventilations, and pocket- mask ventilations. Chest compressions can be used on dummies or practice volunteers with a person's hands. This solution hopes to generate revenue for providing these physical tools, as well as more CPR dummies and manuals to leave in communities with less resources to practice with. We hope to reach schools, businesses, shelters, and other organizations. We also hope to parter with larger humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross and the American Heart Association. 

We have started research on outreach to those who this project would help, as well as people who are interested in potentially becoming volunteers in teaching CPR/BLS skills. We are looking into teaching resources that would be able to cross over the potential language and culture barrier of those we are trying to help. Volunteering with the Red Cross and local hospitals has helped us gain a better understanding of the healthcare system in the United States, and how can we implement some parts of that system into our own non profit.

My team and I are equipped to deliver this solution as we have been collecting different statistics and perspectives on emergency healthcare in different geographic and varying socioeconomic areas of the world. My team and I are in the process of becoming proficient in programming language, being able to code in Java to expand digitally and use resources like Ai and the fields of computer science to make this solution more widespread. We are involved in many different types of humanitarian volunteering, especially with organizations like the Red Cross and local hospitals. We have heard anecdotal stories from those around us who have come from third world countries about the emergency services and healthcare education systems of those communities.

We have taken steps to understand the targets of our service by doing extensive research on statistics and healthcare systems of foreign, third world countries. We are looking into larger humanitarian organizations that we could possibly partner with as we grow. Within our won community, we are looking for potential volunteers who could educate themselves and possibly help teach underserved communities on basic life support/CPR/EMS knowledge. We are looking into creating easily accessible and distributable learning resources. We are also brainstorming about confronting the problems of the language and cultural barrier we may encounter. We are trying to gain more volunteer experiences ourselves, and learn about our own domestic, US healthcare system to possible compare it to our solution brainstorming for international reach. We have collected anecdotes from those around us who have lived in/had experience with emergency medical services in underserved areas. 

We have not yet launched our solution, but we hope to help at least a hundred to a few hundred people within the United States in rural communities, poorer communities. We hope to distribute many more learning resources. 

Our business model is to provide life saving education, and practical skills for the underserved. 

We hope to fund through sustained donations and grants, with a smaller part coming from servie contracts to governments. Revenue from selling merchandise will go back to the organizations current project.