How to Save a Life

You, Eleanor Shellstrop, are dead. You are in cardiac arrest. Your heart has stopped beating, you have stopped breathing, and medically speaking you have died. Not a great start to your day! But worry not: someone has called emergency services. This is the story of that call — and how open geospatial information just might help save your life.

This talk, presented by the CAD & Technical Lead at the London Ambulance Service, will discuss how we use open data to locate patients, how your phone sends live geospatial information to our control room, and the other open (and some not-open) data that our emergency medical service uses to save lives across London every day.

Expect high-level conversations about medical emergencies, but this talk is suitable for all ages.

The recording of the talk stutters a bit but I've found the AV1 WebM to be a lot smoother to watch if downloaded (although it still skips in a couple of places).