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  • Emergency Medicine
  • Public Health

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  • Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of mortality, with survival heavily reliant on timely interventions.
  • Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival depends on prompt diagnosis, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) activation, bystander CPR, and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use.
  • While technology aids AED accessibility, real-world barriers persist in OHCA scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the capability of 6th-year medical students in locating public AEDs using smartphones.
  • To identify challenges encountered by students during AED searches.
  • To propose solutions for improving AED accessibility and retrieval times in emergency situations.

Main Methods:

  • A study involving 300 6th-year medical students at the Medical University of Lodz, Poland (2022-2023).
  • Participants completed a survey on AED knowledge and underwent a practical task to find the nearest AED using personal smartphones.
  • Students were directed to locate AEDs outside the university premises due to a lack of internal listing.

Main Results:

  • Only 3.3% of students utilized an AED-locating app; 32% knew the location of the nearest home AED.
  • All participants had received AED training, and nearly half had witnessed a resuscitation.
  • The median time for 291 students to locate an AED was 58 seconds, with 86.6% finding one within 100 seconds.

Conclusions:

  • Mandatory national registration and a unified, accessible map of all AEDs are crucial.
  • Rapid AED location by bystanders, achievable in under a minute, should be recognized as a critical link in the chain of survival.
  • Addressing data accessibility gaps is essential for improving OHCA survival rates.