Frequently Asked Questions
What PUMAS provides to PUMAS users?
PUMAS will greatly reduce the delay time in case of Medical Emergency Alert by local Medical Emergency, Police and Fire departments intervention, providing quickest possible Emergency Alert help to PUMAS users during so-called (by doctors!) “golden” hour.
Doctors call the first hour to provide medical help in case of heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and other emergencies as a “golden hour”, decreasing the mortality, morbidity, and disability rate by more than 92%.
In case of Police and Fire Alert emergencies it could be “golden minutes”.
Why PUMAS is better than phone call in case of Medical, Police or Fire Emergency?
When a user call 911 by phone, the local Emergency operator will ask you to check your recorded name, address, phone number and what is happening, wasting very precious time.
The same questions will ask clients of the present day simplified Medical Alert operator when client push button to initiate Emergency call. Additional delay time is due to “heavy workload” of Medical Alert Emergency operators.
In case of heart attack, diabetes coma, or in any other reasons when client unable to push Alert button and his life Vital Signs are approaching and cross user’s customized dangerous Red Zones, simplified Medical Alert system will fail to provide help to clients, resulting in 92% increase of mortality, morbidity, and disability rate.
When PUMAS clients push button to initiate Medical Alert for help, PUMAS operator instantly see on his screen the client’s mobile location, personal Static and current life Vital Signs, recorded personal customized Red Zones, client’s personal electronic immunity and chronic disease warnings and instantly initiate without questions to client the Medical Alert signal to closest local Paramedics, Police or Fire department Emergency teams, providing quickest help to clients…
PUMAS continuously 24/7/365 monitors the client’s current Vital Signs and automatically initiates to Medical Emergency, Police and Fire department teams the Alert signal, providing the quickest possible help to clients, decreasing the mortality, morbidity, disability rate more than 92%.
In the medical office PUMAS client will set customized personal static data (name, address, his physician’s office, preferable hospital, chronic health problems, prescribed medications, allergy, blood type, personal limits of his Vital signs, etc.).
Does PUMAS system provide users with on-line mapping for
medical office, user’s physician, family and friends to know user’s
mobile current location and his Vital Signs?
PUMAS automatically provides client’s family members, medical office of his physician, selected friends with connection to his PUMAS Basic device.
PUMAS user can configure his PUMAS setting to email to user’s selected people with all his mobile current information by pushing medical or police/fire pushbutton for help in case of emergency situation.
Does PUMAS have medication reminder?
User can set on line the Basic Pumas the medication reminder schedule to prevent missed or overdosed medications.
What is the PUMAS connectivity?
PUMAS works nationwide on USA Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) cellular carriers: AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US, Verizon, and the regional carriers such as US cellular across the nation such as Metro by T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless, and Tracfone brands.
PUMAS 100% compatible with USA Emergency Alarm system.
PUMAS service covers USA, Canada and can be easy modified for the rest of world cellular network communications.
How electrical power is provided to PUMAS devices?
What is the PUMAS battery life?
PUMAS Basic, Wrist and Pendant/Medallion/Wrist devices have thin film lithium batteries. Pumas’ Basic unit is placed in electrical cradle for charging. Initial first-time charging time is 4 hours. PUMAS Wrist unit is charged by Radio Frequency charging RF or USB contact of Electrical cradle.
Recharging time :72 hours.
PUMAS Pendant/Medallion/Wrist push button unit has lithium thin film battery.
Buttery has to be replaced every 3 years.
What is the operating range of Basic PUMAS and Pendant/Medallion?
Wearable mobile Basic PUMAS and Wrist unit: 20 feet
Basic unit and Pendant/Medallion device: 300 feet
Is a landline or smart phone needed to use PUMAS devices?
User does not need land line or smart phone to use PUMAS devices. PUMAS works as an independent standalone wearable wireless unit. Smart phones or computers are needed once in medical office by doctor to install user’s static information:
Name address, phone, email, preferable hospital, chronic health problems, prescribed medications, personal medical warnings, allergy, blood type, personal limits of his Vital Signs Red Zones, etc.) and by parents to install safe geo fencing border, when child pushed Emergency Alarm push button or automatically when child crossed his geo-fencing line.
PUMAS Connectivity How to prepare the PUMAS for travel?
PUMAS works nationwide on USA Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) cellular carriers: AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US, Verizon, and the regional carriers such as US Cellular across the nation such as Metro by T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless, and Tracfone brands.
PUMAS 100% compatible with USA Emergency Alarm system. PUMAS service covers USA, Canada and can be easy modified for the rest of world cellular network communications.
PUMAS service will cover USA, Canada and South American countries.
PUMAS will be modified for the rest of the world’s continents/territories cellular network communication.
To prepare PUMAs for travel: inform PUMAS Medical operator with your destination and new static PUMAs information.
Who are potential PUMAS users?
PUMAS market base and clientele:
Reductions in the cost of providing quality care to the chronically ill, estimated by the Center for Health Care Economics at the Milken Institute exceeded $1.3 trillion just in USA alone per year in 2014 and growing every year.
PUMAS potential users and clients are PUMAS Market base:
In 2030 the number of U.S. residents struggling with at least one chronic illness is expected to surpass 170 million. That’s more than half of our entire country. When someone develops a chronic disease, it can cause debilitating and life-altering changes that penetrate every aspect of life.
The expanding elderly population (over 80 million now) and adults aren’t the only age groups seeing an uptick. More than 40 percent of children and adolescents currently have at least one chronic or genetic illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is a tremendous cost burden. The spectrum of chronic diseases comprises a disproportionately large segment of U.S. health care costs.
Of the nation’s $4.1 trillion annual health care expenditures, chronic diseases account for 90 percent, more than $3 trillion dollars of annual direct costs alone, more than the USA Defense budget.
All are potential PUMAS clients.
Add Police and Fire departments, agricultural and industrial workers’ all who involved in the dangerous occupation.
PUMAS technology and Wearable Wireless Personal Security service is the perfect instrument to generate consumable, renewable, from year-to-year revenue for high quality PUMAS Medical Alert service and Health Care savings to state and country (decreased workload of hospitals, therapy centers, nursing homes, etc.).
PUMAS Product Life – Cycle Strategy (PLS):
PUMAS products will enjoy a long and profitable life. PUMAS team will continuously modify PUMAS devices with new biomedical discoveries, sensors, chipsets, and technological innovations coming every day on market.
To biomedical basic Vital signs will be continuously added customized specific vital signs for patients with heart, lung, cancer, gastrointestinal, allergy, oncology, immunity chronic health problems.
Hardware and software modifications can easily be applied to PUMAS devices, diversifying applications and decreasing cost and services.
21 First Century is century of biomedical discoveries.