AED Link™ is lifesaving technology. It enables 911 dispatches to quickly link automated external defibrillators (AEDs), AED users and sudden cardiac arrest victims.
AED location information comes from the National AED Registry™.
Organizations with AEDs use this free online tool to comply with registration requirements, easily and efficiently manage AED location and maintenance information, and receive battery and electrode expiration reminders.
This registered AED data is available to 911 agencies that subscribe to the AED Link.
AED Link™ provides 911 dispatchers with mission-critical AED location data via a regularly updated geographic information (GIS) map layer.
Subscribing agencies can import this information-rich data layer into existing GIS mapping systems.
This enables dispatchers to communicate the locations of registered AEDs to callers reporting potential sudden cardiac arrest incidents.
The AED Link GIS mapping functionality allows dispatchers to see the precise locations of registered AEDs near a sudden cardiac arrest victim. This information can be immediatedly shared with the caller.
- Public access AEDs are only used to help an estimated 0.5% of all sudden cardiac arrest victims - typically when a device is within 50 feet of the victim's location.
- By subscribing to the AED Link system, 911 agencies are able to know the location of nearby AEDs and can increase the effective range of each AED from 50 to 300 feet.
- AED Link-delivered knowledge positions 911 agencies to dramatically increase each AED's coverage area from 8,000 square feet to 283,000 square feet.
- Knowing AED location information enables 911 agencies to help increase the number of times AEDs are used from 0.5% to nearly 20%, a 3,500% increase.