The Ariadna RCP application, launched in July, continues to gain cardiopulmonary resuscitation collaborators in Canarias. It currently has a total of 4,816 volunteers managed by the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC).
The RCP 2026 Conferences, held on October 6 and 7 at the Gran Canaria University Hospital, served to introduce the application to healthcare professionals, National Police officers, health students, and the general public.
During the event, the director of the SUC, Noemí González, conducted a simulation of the app's functionality, emphasizing the importance of rapid action and the involvement of first responders to minimize sequelae and increase survival rates.
“"Healthcare coordinators handle numerous emergency calls daily for cardiac arrests occurring outside the hospital setting, where the response time and the involvement of first responders are essential to minimize sequelae and increase the survival of those affected, while healthcare resources are dispatched to the incident site."
The Ariadna app functions as a collaborative map that, in addition to activating the emergency call, locates the nearest AED (automated external defibrillator). With this initiative, Canarias becomes the second autonomous community, after Galicia, to integrate this application, developed by the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC), the Spanish Heart Foundation (FEC), and the Red Cross.
Of the registered volunteers, 1,525 are collaborators who can be activated by the SUC's healthcare coordinators. The remaining 3,291 users act as trackers, adding new defibrillators to the system and facilitating their location through photographs.
The application allows anyone in Canarias to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use a semi-automatic defibrillator under the teleassistance of an SUC coordinator. Ariadna is available on Google Play and the App Store, requiring collaborators to allow notifications and location tracking.
