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Nearby lifesaving resources

The National Emergency AED + Resource (NEAR) Registry provides centralized access to AEDs, naloxone, bleeding control kits and epinephrine, so they can be identified and deployed during life-threatening emergencies.

240,952

ALERTABLE AEDS AVAILABLE

AEDS ADDED TO REGISTRY TODAY

784

CARDIAC ARREST CALLS TODAY

4,991

NEARBY AEDS RECOMMENDED TODAY

Centralized Access

The NEAR Registry provides a unified, authoritative source of emergency resource locations, including AEDs for cardiac arrest, bleeding control supplies for severe bleeding, epinephrine for severe allergic reactions, and naloxone for opioid overdoses.

Inform Callers

The NEAR Registry integrates with public safety applications such as emergency call handling software and telecommunicator medical guidance systems to inform callers of nearby emergency resources.

Initiate Response

In partnership with PulsePoint, the NEAR Registry informs those with an AED, including device owners, responsible parties, and AED response program members, of the nearby need for a defibrillator.

Why is the NEAR registry needed?

Time to defibrillation is the most important determinant of survival from cardiac arrest.¹ Early defibrillation is a high-priority goal (shock delivery within 3-5 minutes).

An EMS call–to-shock time interval of <5 minutes cannot be reliably achieved with conventional EMS services.²

Public access AEDs provide the opportunity to defibrillate victims of cardiac arrest within a few minutes, even at sites remote from traditional EMS responders.

The number of patients who have an AED applied by a bystander remains low, occurring at <12% of public cardiac arrests events.¹

Your chance of survival while waiting for emergency medical services during a cardiac arrest emergency decrease by 7-10% every minute without CPR.²

However, 9 in 10 cardiac arrest victims who receive a shock from an AED in the first minute live.³

There are about 10,000 cardiac arrests in the workplace each year in the United States, according to a report from the US Occupational Safety & Health Administration.¹

Waiting for the arrival of emergency medical system personnel results in only 5-7% survival. Studies with early defibrillation have shown >50% survival after sudden cardiac arrest.²

Immediate CPR and use of an AED can double, or even triple, survival rates.³

TIME TO DEFIBRILLATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DETERMINANT OF SURVIVAL FROM CARDIAC ARREST

9 in 10 cardiac arrest victims who receive a shock from an AED in the first minute live

ONLY 50% OF EMPLOYEES CAN LOCATE AN AED AT WORK

How can you participate in the NEAR registry initiative?

Public Safety Agencies

Public safety agencies play a pivotal role in the effectiveness of the NEAR Registry through two primary responsibilities.

The first step for Fire/EMS agencies, along with their emergency communications centers, is to confirm that AED, bleeding control, epinephrine and naloxone resource locations within their jurisdiction are included in the registry.

The second step is to ensure that emergency telecommunicators have access to those resource locations during call processing. NEAR supports this through pre-existing integrations with telecommunicator medical guidance systems like ProQA Paramount, APCO Intellicomm, and Total Response, in addition to call handling applications like Radius Mapping and ZOLL Dispatch.

Proven strategies and resources to help agencies excel in these roles are readily available at no cost from the PulsePoint Foundation.

Public safety agencies responsible for receiving third-party AED placement and inspection notifications should consider allowing NEAR registrations and updates to meet local reporting requirements. This offers a significant efficiency opportunity for both the agency and any program management companies with direct integrations into the registry.

AED Program Management Companies

AEDs under active program management offer a high level of readiness and are particularly valued in the registry. AED distributors and program management companies can directly integrate with the NEAR Registry via API.

Public safety agencies may allow and even prefer direct AED placement and inspection reporting to the NEAR Registry instead of fax, paper, or email reporting that requires secondary entry by agency personnel. This approach creates efficiency opportunities for both parties and may lead to improved outcomes.

Organizations with Large Numbers of AEDs

Organizations with large numbers of AEDs can provide data files to PulsePoint for bulk upload to the registry. This can be a convenient method for school districts, utilities, airports, and other organizations with too many AED locations to enter manually. Program management companies should ensure that AED records are also shared with the NEAR Registry to simplify this process on an ongoing basis.

Individual AED Owners

AED owners can directly add their AED(s) to the NEAR Registry by using the free NEAR Registry app or by entering aed.new in their browser. Responsible parties seeking ongoing management rights to an AED can follow these instructions.

Shared AEDs

Are you part of a neighborhood AED response program or thinking about starting one? Do you live or work in a building with an AED in a common area? Subscribers to AEDs in the NEAR registry can receive real-time notifications of cardiac emergencies near the location of an AED – regardless of manufacturer or model. Learn more about AED-needed alerts.

Medical Device and Innovation Partners

The NEAR Registry was designed from the ground up to seamlessly interact with a wide variety of applications and devices. If you are a medical device manufacturer with a product that can detect cardiac arrest, PulsePoint and the NEAR Registry can help you alert nearby CPR-trained, AED-equipped responders, including professional responders.

If you are a manufacturer of intelligent devices such as connected cabinets, remote monitoring solutions, or other related innovations, integration with the NEAR Registry may offer meaningful additional capabilities and functionality to your product.

NEAR Advocates

"I was alerted by a PulsePoint AED-Needed notification about a neighbor in cardiac arrest, just a few houses down. I responded from my home, grabbing the neighborhood public access AED mounted outside my house. The seamless integration of PulsePoint with 9-1-1 and a connected AED registry enabled me to arrive before emergency responders and begin care. This kind of real-time, community-based system—linking outdoor AEDs, alerting technology, and local volunteers—has incredible potential to save lives.”
Dr. Steven Brooks, Professor, Clinician-Scientist, Emergency Physician

“Access to a free, comprehensive and universally accessible AED registry is essential when addressing out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Having the ability to know the location of AEDs, and giving emergency dispatchers the opportunity to recommend nearby AED locations to lay rescuers, is an important next step to improve AED utilization. The NEAR registry will undoubtedly help save lives."
Dr. Stuart Berger, Citizen CPR Foundation President and Medical Director, Heart Center, Lurie Children’s Hospital

“The Western Fire Chiefs Association is a strong advocate of the National Emergency AED Registry and its goal to improve cardiac arrest outcomes by enabling 911 telecommunicators to inform callers of AED locations during call processing. PulsePoint, who hosts and administers the registry, is a reliable and trusted partner of public safety and the WFCA.”
Mark Niemeyer, President, Western Fire Chiefs Association and Fire Chief, Boise Fire Department

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How does the registry acquire resource locations?

The NEAR Registry consolidates data from all available sources to create a unified, authoritative source of resource locations for emergency use.

These sources include manufacturers and distributors, program management companies, governmental entities, school districts, airports, and partner organizations and NGOs. Many communities also collect locations in partnership with local businesses and places of assembly.

A variety of APIs are available to automate resource location sharing, along with the NEAR Registry app and the browser-based tool at aed.new.

Who administers the NEAR registry?

PULSEPOINT FOUNDATION

The NEAR registry is hosted and administered by the PulsePoint Foundation, a US-based public 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to empower community members to take life-saving action in the critical moments before professional help arrives.

The foundation advocates for emergency call centers to provide callers with emergency resource locations during call processing, including AED locations (T-AED). This is similar in concept to providing Telecommunicator CPR (T-CPR).

In furtherance of this initiative, PulsePoint provides access to the registry, administrator training, and support services at no charge.

IMPARTIAL PARTY

The PulsePoint Foundation is a neutral overseer of the registry. It does not sell AEDs, provide consumables, or offer maintenance services, and it impartially supports all device manufacturers and industry partners. The Foundation does not recommend specific vendors or devices.

ZOLL NATIONAL AED REGISTRY

In 2024, ZOLL donated the National AED Registry to the PulsePoint Foundation to consolidate efforts and help facilitate the vision of a single, universally accessible AED registry for emergency use.

NEAR Registry App

You can find the NEAR Registry app in the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. The free app offers a simple method to add AEDs and emergency resources to the registry. Once approved, resource locations can be recommended to callers by emergency telecommunicators, and viewed by anyone using the app.

In communities using PulsePoint Respond, AED owners and responsible parties can subscribe to receive real-time alerts when their AED may be needed nearby. When a cardiac arrest occurs near a registered AED, subscribers to that device receive an AED-needed alert requesting they deliver the AED to the reported location.

You can help today, before an emergency happens, by identifying AEDs, bleeding control kits, epinephrine and naloxone in your workplace and community. Doing so also helps create greater location awareness of the important role these resources play during life-threatening emergencies.

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September 15, 2026

RapidSOS and the PulsePoint Foundation Partner to Connect 911 Directly to the Nation's Registry of Life-Saving Emergency Resources

RapidSOS, the leading public safety AI company, today announced a new integration with the PulsePoint Foundation, which hosts and administers the National Emergency AED + Resource (NEAR) Registry. The integration connects RapidSOS directly to the NEAR Registry's database of AEDs, naloxone (Narcan), epinephrine, and bleeding-control kits, giving 911 telecommunicators immediate access to public-safety vetted life-saving resources during an emergency. Telecommunicators can use this information to direct callers to the appropriate resources—without leaving their existing workflow.

The integration is live today across RapidSOS, including its free tier, and is available to any Emergency Communications Center (ECC) nationwide at no additional cost. Georgia is the latest state to deploy it at scale, driven by the Mason Sells AED Coordination Act (SB399), which requires 911 to have access to an AED registry. The NEAR Registry is the national standard meeting that requirement.

December 4, 2025

PulsePoint and ZOLL Accelerate Growth of National Emergency AED Registry, Helping More Communities Locate and Use Devices When Seconds Count

The PulsePoint Foundation and ZOLL®, an Asahi Kasei company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, including automated external defibrillators (AEDs), announces a new initiative, Anyone Can Register.

The program will rally volunteers, AED owners, and AED manufacturers to expand NEAR so AED locations nationwide are known and recommended during cardiac emergencies. Launching in February 2026 during American Heart Month, the initiative is part of ZOLL’s national Anything Can Happen. Anyone Can Help.™ campaign, which works to close the gap between CPR awareness and action by showing that AEDs do more than deliver a shock. They guide bystanders with step-by-step CPR instructions and can help improve outcomes for cardiac arrest patients.

December 1, 2025

Data-Driven AED Optimization Pilot Through CARES + NEAR Collaboration

Communities need clear, actionable insight to determine where Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) will have the greatest impact. To support this, the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) and the National Emergency AED Registry (NEAR) are launching a pilot that integrates real-world cardiac arrest data with verified AED location data. This effort will help agencies identify coverage gaps and optimize AED deployment.

The unified platform will enable emergency response teams, public health agencies, and community partners to view OHCA incidence alongside AED availability, helping direct devices where they can have the greatest impact and enhance the chain of survival.

November 24, 2025

Anchorage, Alaska Wins 2025 PulsePoint AED Contest

The PulsePoint Foundation, a public non-profit 501(c)(3), announced that the Anchorage Fire Department has won the 2025 PulsePoint AED Contest, winning five ZOLL® AED 3 defibrillators and a SaveStation outdoor cabinet providing the first 24/7-accessible ZOLL AED placed in the community.

The contest took place during the month of October, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, and was eligible to any community using PulsePoint AED to locate and register AEDs. The Anchorage Fire Department collectively registered 132 at locations throughout the greater Anchorage area.

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