The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association...

The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association stressed the importance of improving indoor wireless 911 location accuracy, in a Sept. 11 FCC filing posted Monday in docket in 07-114. Time spent searching for a caller is “valuable, lifesaving time not spent treating patients suffering from an acute cardiovascular event,” the groups said (http://bit.ly/1porHM4). The “FCC’s proposed standards will have significant health benefits.” There are almost 424,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests yearly, and “tragically most result in death,” the groups said. “Timely cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation in these cases, when coupled with early advanced care, can increase long-term survival rates."