Sandy Springs launched a community program that dispatches CPR-trained citizen volunteers with advanced and connected defibrillators.

The city’s Avive Solutions 4 Minute Community Program aims to close the gap between the onset of cardiac arrest and the arrival of professional emergency responders, according to a news release.

Northside Hospital Foundation and Northside Hospital Heart Institute have provided 103 Avive Connect AEDs to start the program, the release said.

The program will leverage historical data on Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) in specific areas, according to the release.

Each Avive Connect AED is integrated with Sandy Springs’ 911 Emergency Communications Center, Chattahoochee River 911 Authority (ChatComm). When a 911 cardiac arrest call comes in, telecommunicators will

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