California Doctor Stresses Importance of Location Accuracy Rules for Wireless 911 Calls Made Indoors
Angelo Salvucci, a California physician practicing emergency medicine, met with various FCC staffers to discuss the importance of rules on indoor wireless 911 location accuracy, said an ex parte filing. “I sought to underscore the importance of rapidly locating persons…
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who need medical assistance and delivering that medical assistance quickly,” Salvucci said (http://bit.ly/1wwfNHf). “EMS response cannot begin until the caller reporting an emergency medical condition reaches the correct dispatcher.” Salvucci said he played a recording of a recent indoor wireless 911 call from the brother of a 24-year-old woman whose heart had stopped. “By the time the emergency responders arrived at the residence (ten minutes after the initial call was made), the patient was deceased,” he said. The filing was posted Friday in docket 07-114. The FCC is considering whether it should mandate location accuracy standards for wireless calls to 911 made indoors (see 1402210038).