ProCardio 21 Presentation at CSRC Meeting

Their plan is to make Chapala the first city to be Cardio-Protected, meaning that people have the ability to reach a person having a heart attack within 3 to 5 minutes and to render appropriate life-saving measures.  

Every two minutes someone dies in Mexico from a heart attack, and a defibrillator can save 90% of those having an attack. Chapala has a population of about 49,000, and 290 people have heart disease. Their organization trains staff to give CPR and use a defibrillator. At a stage 4 certification level there would be two trained people each shift on the staff of major facilities.  

The law states that when a gathering or public facility has over 500 people they need to have a defibrillator available.  Pro Cardio 21 want to have them in many locations:  hotels, restaurants, government offices, etc. In the future, drones could deliver a defibrillator which would come with full instructions on use. There are new pacemakers that can tell a doctor what is going on or deliver a shock when needed.  

The ‘smart’ defibrillator they use costs about 40,000 pesos.