Giving CPR to a person in trouble due to cardiac arrest can be the difference between life and death. But as a bystandard if you haven’t done it before or have had little experience in doing so, the success rate can be sadly minimalistic. To solve this problem Natalie Vanns (Product Designer) Shivanjali Tomar (Interaction Designer) and Doris Feurstein (Interaction Designer) have created a product called 100BPM, a simplified chest compression product which apparently won the Reddot Design Award 2012. This Compression-Only CPR method involves no mouth to mouth resuscitation and only requires chest compressions which are conveyed through a light showing the user how much push indicated by yellow (too shallow), green (correct pressure) or red (too deep). The product also gives voice commands to keep the user motivated to push on in a pressure situation when someone’s life is at stake.
100BPM is made from light-weight material and is very compact for portability having a comfortable central silicone coated pad engraved with suggestive neck lines and alignment icons so that you can place it exactly at the right place on the chest. Right now the product is going through prototype phase and soon we’ll see it out for purchase which is good news as many more lives will be saved by an ingenious invention of technology.
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*UPDATE*:
It is a student project and will not be available for purchase.
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# The predicament when it comes to performing CPR
# How easy it gets with 100BPM to give CPR
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