Built for the rescuers who use it.

INSIGHT-CPR is designed in direct collaboration with the first responders and clinicians
who will use it during cardiac arrest resuscitations.

Grid of nine images displaying the various responders including police officers, firefighters, air ambulance personnel, emergency medical services, and hospital teams.

How We Build

We map real-life resuscitation scenarios, identify gaps in current workflows and test whether our device solves those gaps without adding burden. We prototype, gather feedback and iterate. Over two years, we are hosting four design thinking workshops with hundreds of first responders and clinicians across the full spectrum of cardiac arrest care.

Informed by Perspectives from Across the Spectrum of Care

Workshop participants represent the chain of survival, from first responders on scene to in-hospital teams and air medical transport.

  • Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

  • Michigan Medicine

  • Michigan Medicine Children’s Emergency Services (CES)

  • Northville Township Fire Department

  • Trenton Fire Department

  • Trinity Health

  • U-M Survival Flight

  • UM-Flint/Genesee County Police and Fire Department

  • University of Michigan

  • University of Minnesota

  • Westland Fire Department

  • American Heart Association

  • Ann Arbor Fire Department

  • Brighton Area Fire Department

  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

  • Dearborn Heights Fire Department

  • Dexter Fire Department

  • East Anglian Air Ambulance

  • Henry Ford Health - West Bloomfield

  • Hurley Medical Center

  • Huron Valley Ambulance

  • INTENT Venture Capital

  • Livingston County EMS

Scenes from Past Meetings & Workshops

Workshop 1: October 16-17, 2025

Dr. Cindy Hsu, Juliet Rogers, Dr. James Price, Dr. Paul Rees, and Aaron Call stand with members of the University of Michigan's Survival Flight critical care air transport team in front of one of Survival Flight's helicopters.
A process chart displaying the steps that occur during a pre-hospital cardiac, beginning with bystander discovery of the arrest up to the arrival of EMS. The chart is covered in sticky notes detailing questions and observations made during the Octobe
Members of the INSIGHT-CPR team and invited end-users, (including police, EMS, firefighters, and clinicians), performing a group activity during the October 2025 design-thinking workshop.
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Members of the INSIGHT-CPR team and invited end-users, (including police, EMS, firefighters, and clinicians), performing a group activity during the October 2025 design-thinking workshop.
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Members of the INSIGHT-CPR team pose outside of the venue of the 2025 INSIGHT-CPR team retreat and design-thinking workshop. In front, the team is holding a poster celebrating World Restart a Heart Day, which coincided with the retreat.

Workshop 2: April 17, 2026

Attendees at the second Design Thinking workshop gather for a group shot.
Workshop attendees fit an INSIGHT-CPR prototype onto a medical mannikin during a simulation of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Workshop attendees conduct a simulation of mechanical CPR on a medical mannikin. The mannikin is wearing an INSIGHT-CPR prototype on its wrist.
Workshop attendees transport a medical mannikin on a stretcher during a simulation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Workshop attendees perform CPR on a medical mannikin in a hospital bed as part of a simulation of in-hospital cardiac arrest.
Workshop attendees work together to lift a medical mannikin from the ground and onto a stretcher, simulating moving a patient who has experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Workshop attendees load a medical manikin on a stretcher into the back of an ambulance.