RTL Today – Nurse in Luxembourg: A Mosellen wins the Lépine competition: “It’s just crazy!”
The Lépine competition, which rewards the best inventions, named its most prestigious distinction on Sunday to a connected defibrillator accessory, which is automatically triggered during a call to emergency services for a heart attack.
The “Géocoeur” connected box is “a connected panel that is placed over defibrillatorsit is a complementary product to the defibrillator”, summarizes Frederic Leyboldinventor son, joined this Monday by RTL 5 Minutes.
The discovery imposed itself Sunday evening among 358 inventions in competition for this 121st edition of the Lépine competition. And to tell the truth, the more the evening of the awards ceremonies at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles progressed, the less Frédéric Leybold believed in it: “Even if we hope – when we participate in a competition it’s to try to win – we don’t really believe in it at the end of the evening. When the announcement fell and we won the President of the Republic Prize… It was a lot of emotion!“, testifies Frédéric. He was awarded the prize in the form of a Sèvres porcelain vase.
The principle of the “Geocoeur” box is simple: When the emergency services receive a report of cardiac arrest, the server locates the the nearest connected boxes, which then start flashing to attract the attention of passers-by. Thanks to a QR code, onlookers can then locate the victim and bring him help more quickly than the firefighters or the Samu.
Geo Trouvetou at heart, Frédéric Leybold is from Moselle and has worked for many years in Luxembourg. It is resuscitation nurse half-time at the Robert Schuman Hospitals in Luxembourg Kirchberg, for the other half-time, it is Health officer at CGDIS, deployed in the most modern fire station in Europe. His voice reassures people in distress who call 112.
he is also President of the First Responders Association (AFPR) and had already launched in October 2018 in Moselle a mobile application which allows to connect victims of cardiac arrest and rescuers located nearby.
“I am very happy that the first prize of the competition is explained to him“, indicated the director of the competition, Barbara Dorey, who salutes an invention”very important from a humanistic point of view“.”It is very representative of what the Lépine competition is“, she added, touting a “connected object for the good of all“, “the answer to the ultimate need in the event of a heart problem“.
“MADE IN MOSELLE”
“It’s just crazy!” implied what ” happens to us “, exclaims Frédéric this Monday morning. Well aware of what this prize in the Lépine competition means: “California also represents pressure, because now it is necessary to industrialize the project. There is a gap and we must pass“.
To guarantee optimum product quality, the AFPR has chosen to entrust the manufacture of Geocoeur to Cesatec, located in Talange in Moselle. A choice that allows the association to be MOSL ambassadors and to support the products manufactured in the department.
In addition, the project is very largely supported by the local Alsace-Moselle scheme, which has paid a grant of €130,000, allowing the Geocoeur to be tested on the scale of the department.
In effect, 100 towns in Moselle will soon be equipped of the connected box. The project will of course go beyond these municipalities to cover a larger area and save more lives.
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