News tagged with emergency call
Emergency detection systems for senior citizens
Elderly people living alone have a dangerous life: after a fall, they often spend hours lying on the floor before their situation comes to anyone's attention and a doctor is contacted. A new system automatically ...
Feb 04, 2011 |
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US to modernize 911 emergency service
During the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, desperate students attempted to text the 911 emergency service.
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Calling it in: New emergency medical service system may predict caller's fate
Japanese researchers have developed a computer program which may be able tell from an emergency call if you are about to die. Research published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine shows that a computer algori ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Iowa 911 call center becomes first to accept texts
An emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa, became the first in the country to accept text messages sent to "911," starting Wednesday.
Aug 05, 2009 |
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