The HEART-SAFE project is a collaboration of five partners in the Netherlands who plan to increase the survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. We are developing an algorithm that detects a cardiac arrest from smartwatch sensor data, using artificial intelligence. In addition, we are building an application that immediately notifies Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and citizen rescuers when a cardiac arrest is detected.
Approximately 17,000 people in the Netherlands suffer from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) each year, and nearly half of these incidents are unwitnessed. Many people face fatal outcomes or suffer poor neurological outcomes because Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are alerted too late or not at all (unwitnessed cardiac arrest).
The HEART-SAFE project is a partnership between Amsterdam UMC, University of Twente, Stan b.v. and Wavy Health.
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We are happy to present our survey study about potential users's attitude towards automated cardiac arrest detection using smartwatches.
The University of Twente (UT) was approached by RTV Oost for an interview in response to this article on the UT site.
We are proud to present our first publication of the HEART-SAFE project!
