First Aid CPR AED | Resuscitation organizations join forces to up cardiac arrest survival

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First Aid CPR AED Resuscitation
organizations join forces to up cardiac arrest
survival
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The American Heart Association, Resuscitation
Academy Foundation of Seattle, Washington, and
Laerdal Medical have joined forces to create the
Resuscitation Academy Collaborative, a group
leading U.S. efforts to improve cardiac arrest
survival. The move is part of a larger global
effort to improve worldwide cardiac arrest
survival by 50 percent. The U.S. group and its
international counterpart, the Global
Resuscitation Alliance, were officially formed
during the EMS2016 Congress earlier this
year. Cardiac arrest is a global public health
problem, with about one million deaths a year in
high-resource countries, according to a 2015
report. Survival from cardiac arrest is
tragically and unacceptably low, said Mickey S.
Eisenberg MD, PhD, Medical Quality Improvement,
King County EMS, Seattle and co-author of the
paper that led to the Global Resuscitation
Alliance, in a news release.
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In the United States, more than 350,000 people
suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually,
with just a 12 percent survival rate from all
rhythms causing cardiac arrest. In 2013 Seattle
and surrounding King County reached 62 percent
survival for bystander-witnessed cardiac arrest
caused by ventricular fibrillation, an abnormal
heart rhythm that causes the heart to effectively
stop. CPR can manually circulate a small amount
of blood, and an automated external
defibrillator, or AED, can shock the heart to
help it resume an effective rhythm. One of the
guiding principles of the Alliance is that
communities can and must do better, said
Eisenberg. He said communities can increase
survival from cardiac arrest by up to 50
percent. Both the U.S. and international groups
report that disparities in cardiac arrest
treatment and the lack of trained bystanders in
many communities are lowering survival, according
to the news release.
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• It takes a tremendous amount of coordination to
  shape systems of emergency care that perform
  optimally, said John J. Meiners, chief of
  mission aligned business at the AHA. The
  Resuscitation Academy Collaborative and Global
  Resuscitation Alliance offer four initial
  recommendations EMS departments should use to
  improve survival
• Speed dispatch of first responders to cardiac
  arrest emergencies.
• Standardize dispatcher-assisted CPR, to help 911
  call centers correctly identify cardiac arrest
  and walk callers through CPR.
• Hands-Only CPR and conventional CPR can double or
  triple a cardiac response victims chance of
  survival, according to the AHA.

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• Improve CPR quality through regular individual
  and team practice of CPR, as recommended in the
  AHAs 2015 resuscitation guidelines.
• Secure commitment of community leaders improving
  cardiac arrest response and treatment. The
  Alliance will encourage the appropriate leaders
  to establish a model that will help EMS
  departments continuously evaluate and improve
  their cardiac arrest response.
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• Source https//newsarchive.heart.org

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