Don’t depend on your smart home device to save a life
The most important thing to do if you witness a cardiac arrest at home is not to call on your smart home computer but rather to dial 999 or 112 immediately.
This is the message from Head of Resus at the Irish Heart Foundation Brigid Sinnott, in response to social media posts currently doing the rounds which state that smart home devices can help you to do CPR in an emergency.
In the posts people are advised that in an emergency such as a cardiac arrest, to tell their smart home device to “activate emergency CPR” and this will trigger it to commence CPR instructions. However, this is not the best first action to take in the event of a cardiac arrest and should not be used in any way as an alternative to medical advice.
Commenting Brigid said, “ Rather than depending on a smart home device to save a life, the best and only thing to do in an emergency is to call the emergency services and they will talk you through how to perform CPR. Better still why not learn how to do CPR yourself so that when you do make the call to the ambulance service you know what to do next.”
Read full article (Irish Heart Foundation)
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