But here’s the good news: a new paradigm for resuscitation practices is already in place and working successfully at leading health care organizations. This new standard emphasizes mastery learning ...
Hospitals Vary in Resuscitation Times for Cardiac Arrest To address variation in CPR quality that can affect survival, the American Heart Association is calling for a renewed focus on improving ...
The American Heart Association and medical equipment manufacturer Laerdal Medical are partnering to improve resuscitation care quality and prevent heart attack deaths in U.S. hospitals. The AHA and ...
The American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI®) Program is the performance improvement program delivering quarterly, audiovisual coaching at the point of care to achieve ...
A study of more than 17,238 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients found that nearly all survivals were achieved within 35 minutes of performing cardiopulmonary respiration and that there was little ...
In the second report, Benjamin S. Abella, M.D., M.Phil., of the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether well-trained hospital staff perform CPR ...
New technology has allowed researchers from the University of Chicago to measure, for the first time, how closely well-trained hospital staff comply with established guidelines for cardio-pulmonary ...