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The result is Life Support Services,
an online program that lists medical
and personal information, includ-
new program to give emer-
ing emergency contacts, voluntarily
gency responders the vital
entered by subscribers on a Web site
information they need to
only available to designated emer-
help a patient at the click of a corn-
gency responders.
puter mouse is the brainchild of Susan
That could include how many
Light of Commerce Township.
people and pets live at your address,
Light, who grew up in Southfield,
medications and where they are kept,
has worked for two years to develop a
your native language and even your
secure, online data system for police,
garage key pad code or where an aux-
fire and hospitals following her own
iliary key is kept.
chaotic emergency experience.
For instance, if a fire or break-in
That was when she had to call 911
takes place when no one is home,
for her husband, Michael, a former
emergency responders reach you
electrician on disability for a heart
through your cell phone or those you
condition, who mistook shortness of
have listed as contacts. They can also
breath for a heart attack.
look to see if you have listed any pets
The dispatcher had her answering
that might be home alone.
a series of questions as well as run-
Or, if someone is in distress and
ning around the house to round up
home alone, responders can seamless-
the medications he was on rather than ly enter the house knowing in advance
attending to his immediate needs.
the individual's medical history.
"I thought that there's got to be a
better idea," said Light, the mother
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of two Walled Lake Northern High
"There is some excitement about it:'
School students.
said Sgt. Luther Matthews of the West
Her research showed systems such
Bloomfield Police Department.
as bracelets and medical alert devices,
West Bloomfield is the first commu-
but no approach that has the potential nity to adopt the system.
of online universality.
When the 911 dispatchers in that
So she consulted sheriffs, police
township receive a call, once the facts
officers, dispatchers and hospital
have been obtained and the appropri-
emergency room personnel to find out ate emergency rescue sent, the next
what information they need to better
step is to bring up the address on
save lives, whether responding to a
road accident or home incident.
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