Medical emergency response and locating system

Abstract

An emergency response system for detecting, locating, and responding to a predetermined medical emergency, such as sudden cardiac arrest/sudden cardiac death, in a person being sensed for the predetermined emergency, and wherein the medical emergency can be treated with portable medical equipment, such as an AED machine for treating cardiac arrest/sudden cardiac death, includes a reader worn by the person being sensed for reading a dysfunction indicating the existence or imminent existence of the emergency condition and a sensor for determining when an emergency condition is read and producing an alarm signal. A processor activates a personal alarm at the location of the person suffering the emergency, now the victim, which indicates the emergency and the victim's location to those in the victim's immediate area. The processor also transmits an alarm signal to an alarm indicator on the portable medical equipment to alert anyone in the immediate area of the equipment, an emergency response person, that a victim is in immediate need of such equipment. Preferably, the alarm signal includes location signals which indicate the location of the victim to direct the emergency response person with the equipment to the victim. The processor preferably also transmits or causes transmission of an alarm signal to a remote emergency response center which receives the alarm and dispatches an emergency response person or emergency response team to the victim. Again, location information in or with the alarm signal directs the emergency response person to the location of the victim. The invention provides a closed loop system, i.e., victim emergency, transmission of alarm signal and location information to an emergency response person, and response by an emergency response person to the victim.