LifePad - a Life Safety Phone for High Rise Facilities

1. LifePad A Life Safety Phone

2. A LifePad phone

3. Life Safety in high rise facilities • Early interventioneffectively does not exist in high rises • As city traffic has grown, so too has the response time required for ambulance and fire vehicles – and high rises take ~2.7 min more • Patient access now estimated at10-15 minutesfrom the “event” • As with fire, cardiac and related emergencies must be addressed in the earliest minutes or may not be retrievable • Passive, standalone deployment of AEDs etc. has been a failure in large facilities, communications support is required

4. Leveraging the scale of high rises Large facilities present challenges for EMSvehicular access, yet manyadvantages for onsite responses • Patient access can be as short as 2-3 minutes from event onset • Responses by EMRs withpass keys and volunteers • Elevators speed access to patients and equipment • One EMR (responder)can protect adjacent buildings as well • EMS arrival consolidatesrescues with aftercare, patient transport • Pressure relieved on EMS/9-1-1 dispatch and overcommitted vehicles • Qualifies “emergencies” vs less urgent calls for 9-1-1 PSAPs

5. A direct Rescue STRATEGY The Lend-to-End Protocoloffers the shortest route possible, with obvious benefits • A victim or witness senses a medical emergency, and presses the cellphone icon • A LifePad at Securityreceivesa loud text alert, including suite number. • Responder enters the “keycontrol” room, for a medicalbagwith an AED, Naloxone, oxygen, bandages etc and takes the elevator • Opensthe suite doorwithin 2-3 minutes and assesses the emergency, updates EMS This direct “cut to the chase” solution is likely to become the standard for security in the Green Buildings movement. Heart safety is the root of life safety that cellular enables.

6. Centralizing onsite communications • The LifePad is the first life safety phone, and introduces fixed cellular as a new form factor – allowing victims to text a device or place instead of a person • The device is deployed as a front deskor security stationphone • A Lifepad is a Blackberry Passport “phablet” affixed over a 110V outlet, supported by a cloud network (Blackberry Enterprise Server 12) • Network connection is to a cellular voice account, with its own phone number • Integrated with cloud-based telephony and database repositories • Configurable for EMS,e9-1-1local infrastructure and procedures • A partner for AEDsthat anchors their efficient and reliable deployment

7. Making RESCUESROUTINE NOT RARE • Because a LifePad can receive texts(and to date EMS Dispatch cannot) a victim can summon help with a single icon press on their own. • Thetextwill include the exact addressof the victim, not just GPS coordinates – the LifePad’s primary purpose is to protect residents and workers • Pre-composed textsmay contain volunteered medical and risk disclosurefor that person to inform the responder of underlying conditions • Unwitnessedcardiac, overdose, bleeding, breathing, allergic, shock etc. events leave the patient themselves a chance to signal security if they are conscious • Severe organ damagesuch as TBI and paralysis mitigated with short response times

8. Opportunity for MeDICAL SURVEILLANCE • Unprecedented opportunities for Surveillanceand data related to early intervention,strokeintervention, drug trials, efficacy and outcomes • Studies of best practices around survival – not morbidity. • Less reliance on AED registries or public access defibrillation stations if a facility has LifePad signaling • BCLS training can be centered on security personnel, improving their skills and wages • Late-career EMS paramedics can continue by mentoring students, and impart an understanding of local EMS infrastructure, policies, protocols and patient realities • Documented safety improvements will justify a transition awayfrom over-reliance on expensive vehicle rolls for unwarranted calls – saving municipalities millions