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It is weird seeing the word CPR in the same sentence as Denmark when not talking about our SSN (which the most common use of "cpr" in Danish, it is short for central person register)..

On a more on-topic note, we have a hell of a lot of the AED devices all around (at least here in the capital). I am within 100 meters of a (public) device at most of my waking hours (most are privately owned by businesses and associations like my home-owner's assoc).

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I have no idea where my nearest AED device is to where I am in the UK, I have been trained in their use and in CPR.

Would like to have systems that don't require a smartphone as I don't have one.

Does retrieving and activating the AED trigger an alert to rescue services?

You still have to call 1-1-2 (Danish 9-1-1) yourself, through i think the machine has a speaker and mentions it.

I guess everybody knows this, but 112 is the emergency telephone number in a lot more countries than "just" Denmark [1].

According to Wikipedia, it even works in the US if dialed from a cell phone, by being forwarded to 911 by the network. That I didn't know, since the "cultural presence" of 911 is pretty big even over here in Sweden.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_numbe...

In some european countries, 911 calls are forwarded to 112 for this exact reason, the cultural presence of 911

It's part of mobile phone standards to accept several emergency numbers (at least 112 and 911, I think 999 as well), and translate to the local number. That's not always doable with landlines as it might conflict with a longer number, and some countries have short numbers that might conflict as well, but I think that's rare too.

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