Dispatchers for Bruce County Paramedic Services have new information available to them for cardiac arrest calls.
The county is sharing its database of public access defibrillators with its dispatchers based in London.
Director of Emergency Services Doug Smith says if a person calls 911 because somebody is in cardiac arrest, the dispatchers will immediately know if there's a public access defibrillator in or near the building and they will walk the caller through how to use it.
Smith says the county has a database that includes more than 100 public access defibrillators, but he suspects there are more out there that they don't know about.
He says it's information the county needs to know because it may save a life.
"I would like people to let (Bruce County Paramedic Services) know if they're putting a public access defibrillator in their facility. We would like to know what the serial number is, we'd like to know the location, we'd even like to have a picture of where it is in the facility and then we give this information all to dispatch," says Smith.
