KU Leuven is going to test an app in Kinrooi that warns residents when a cardiac arrest is reported to the emergency number 112 in their vicinity. The aim is to allow local residents to start resuscitation before emergency services arrive, because every second counts during a sudden cardiac arrest. An app already exists in the Netherlands that alerts local residents and indicates where public defibrillators are located; in Belgium, the project i…
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KU Leuven is going to test an app in Kinrooi that warns residents when a cardiac arrest is reported to the emergency number 112 in their vicinity. The aim is to allow local residents to start resuscitation before emergency services arrive, because every second counts during a sudden cardiac arrest. An app already exists in the Netherlands that alerts local residents and indicates where public defibrillators are located; in Belgium, the project i…