Registration
*No fee is required to register.
An AED can be considered ‘public access’ even if it requires that a bystander go through a staff member or a physical barrier first (e.g. a buzzer).
If there is a code or special instruction to access an AED that you do not want to be known to anyone but a responder in an emergency, please select that your AED is “private” and then put the code in the next field. The code will not be made public.
Why register:
By registering your device, you can help save lives in your community. This program is designed to help improve sudden cardiac arrest survival rates by rapidly linking AEDs, AED responders, and sudden cardiac arrest patients.
Registering your AED will help keep your unit in good working order and ready to use. Once you create an account in GoodSAM, you can log in to your dashboard to view and edit your AED(s). You will also receive notifications when the pads/batteries are about to expire.
Benefits to this program include:
- Automated e-mails to AED ‘guardians’ regarding maintenance items, recalls and CPR/AED protocol changes
- A guardian is defined as the person in charge of maintaining the AED and its contents
- Notifications of volunteer community responders who have downloaded the GoodSAM Responder phone application or through SMS text messages
- Integration in the EHS Medical Communication Centre where the communication officer can direct a secondary layperson to retrieve a nearby AED and direct them to bring it back and how to use it
- Overall public confidence that Nova Scotia is trying to increase the survival rates of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest patients