The Skyaid Organization plans to save 100,000 lives per year by enabling immediate emergency response in metropolitan areas around the world. It will provide quick aid for sudden cardiac arrests as well as heart attacks, strokes, fires, and accidents.

Skyaid was formed as a non-profit organization in July 2000 in Washington state to eliminate the problem of slow access to emergency medical care.

Skyaid will consist of primarily of two components: a Skycar and a Skyaid Watch. The Skycar is a new concept aircraft similar to a helicopter but it is 3X faster, 3X quieter, and 10X safer. The Skycar will fly up to 360 miles per hour to the person who requested help via an emergency response system or via the Skyaid Watch. Moller International is developing the Skycar in Davis, California.

The Skyaid Watch is a wristwatch that monitors a person's pulse rate and sends a radio request for help when it senses a sudden cardiac attack or if its 'panic buttons' are pressed.

Sudden cardiac arrests will be halted by the Skyaid emergency medical technician defibrillating the heart within five minutes of the time the call for help was made, or automatically within five minutes if the person was wearing a Skyaid Watch.

Critical care centers in a small fraction of US hospitals are now able to actually reverse the damage of heart attacks and strokes only if they can attend to the patient within two hours of symptom onset. Skyaid will enable victims within a 140-mile radius to get to the critical care center in a regional hospital within two hours.

Statistically, heart disease is the number one killer for the majority of people worldwide. Forty percent of the sudden cardiac attacks occur without any prior indication and result in death if aid is not applied within 10 minutes. There is only a 50 percent survival rate after five minutes. In addition, the 40 percent of sudden cardiac attacks that are not observed have a survival rate of less than 1%.

The Skyaid Watch is the only way to survive an unobserved cardiac attack and can add an average of 5 years to a life by halting sudden cardiac attack. Eighty percent of deaths from sudden cardiac attack can be prevented if automatic defibrillation is applied within five minutes of the attack. Typically, automatic defibrillators arrive more than 10 minutes after being requested, which is too late to help.

House fires also can be contained or extinguished by a compressed air foam system carried on the Skycar. The Skycar can provide a first response to those house fires, when the conventional fire engine is either too far away or is unavailable. Likewise, the Skycar can respond to emergency requests for help for accidents if a ground-based team cannot respond quickly enough.

Skyaid expects coverage of the first metropolitan area by 2005. By 2010, Skyaid anticipates saving 100,000 lives annually around the world in 70 metropolitan areas.

The Skyaid Organization is looking for contributions, support, and employees. Skyaid will be able to give US tax deductions retroactively after completing the necessary US nonprofit paper work. Early donations will determine which metropolitan areas are covered first.

Skyaid can save your life, the life of a family member, save your house, and help you maintain your quality of life after a heart attack or stroke.

A donation of $50 can save a life. Thus, $1,000,000 could save 20,000 lives.

How many lives do you want to help save?

Skyaid is the only answer to this worldwide problem.