A local high school senior is working to save lives of heart attack victims.

Jennifer Gutman, a senior at Columbus North, is using her senior project to catalog all of the automated external defibrillators in town and making their locations available through an app on your phone. The medical devices, known as AEDs, let even a lay person help stabilize the heartbeat of a person in a cardiac incident.

The app, called, Pulse Point AED will show the location of the emergency defibrillators closest to your current location and identify others within a mile, Gutman said.

Gutman said she worked during her spring break cataloging AEDs and adding them to the application.

Gutman said she was inspired to tackle the project after her grandfather’s bouts with heart problems.

Gutman explains that people can help, by downloading the app from the Apple or Android app store and adding any emergency defibrillators they know of. They can also upload a photo of where the medical devices are stored and give detailed directions on how to find them.

Her efforts were praised by members of the Bartholomew Consolidated School board during its meeting this week. Board member Kathy Dayhoff Dwyer works for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and said she is unaware of any other communities undergoing a similar project.