Is emergency medicine on the verge of “the dawn of a new golden age of resuscitation?” That’s the bold prediction from CPR innovator Keith Lurie, MD, a professor of internal and emergency medicine at the University of Minnesota, a director of the CentraCare Heart and Vascular Center and the founder of Minnesota Resuscitation Solutions. Emergency physicians, EMS personnel, and other experts from around the world gathered to discuss these recent advances in resuscitation science and clinical practice at the inaugural State of the Future of Resuscitation Conference held in September. Some obvious and well-known factors help to predict which arrest patients have a reasonable chance of surviving more or less neurologically intact.

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