Torben Becker – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:51:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png Torben Becker – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 Alachua County’s Bystander CPR Rates Save Lives, Study Finds (UF Health) https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/alachua-countys-bystander-cpr-rates-save-lives/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:50:38 +0000 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/?p=21176 Two minutes into cardiac arrest — when the heart stops pumping and blood ceases to flow to the body’s organs — brain cells begin to die. It only takes another five minutes for irreversible neurological damage to occur.

When every second counts, early intervention is key to survival.

A study University of Florida Health researchers published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine shows that following the local activation of PulsePoint, an app that alerts CPR-trained individuals about a nearby cardiac event, rates of bystander CPR performed outside a hospital setting significantly increased in Alachua County.

 

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