Every year, around 8,000 people in Switzerland suffer from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), with an average survival rate of just 13%.
Every minute without CPR reduces the chances of survival by 10%.
Momentum is a platform that enables the rapid identification and alerting of the right rescuers in emergency situations, especially in cases of SCA.
In the Swiss cantons where Momentum is used, the survival rate of affected individuals has increased by nearly 50%.
Each rescuers can receive push notifications directly via their cantonal app from the emergency dispatch center and confirm their availability.
Momentum already has more than 40,500 active users.
A success story is the Canton of Ticino, where thanks to an efficient network of first rescuers and over 1,100 public defibrillators, the survival rate for ventricular fibrillation has reached 55%.
Georeferenced alerting
Be called up for assignments at your place of residence, place of work, and current location
Calculation of the journey time
Be called up for missions by an automatic algorithm that calculates your current travel time.
Defibrillator map
See public and private defibrillators near you
Show your surroundings to the operations center via live video
Alerting according to schedule with availabilities
Set the times for which you want to be alerted and where
Uniform situational awareness
See other responders in your First Responder mission
“What I find Momentum is really great at is when the ambulance is very far away, so it takes a long time to arrive on the scene, and the people who called are struggling and unable to do anything. The sooner help arrives (the first responder or the rapid responder), the sooner we can actually do something. That’s incredibly rewarding. In this case, Momentum really helps us a lot!”
Graziana
Central operator FCTSA, Tessin