Tag: CPR

Defibrillator-carrying drones could save lives, research suggests

Drones are already employed for anything from military to recreational use, from oil exploration to film-making, but they could also help save the lives of people who have suffered a cardiac arrest, research suggests. A... read more

Improving CPR Performance

Cardiac arrest continues to represent a public health burden with most patients having dismal outcomes. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a complex set of interventions requiring leadership, coordination, and best practices.... read more

PulsePoint Mobile App – Enabling Citizen Superheroes

PulsePoint Respond is an enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) pre-arrival solution designed to support public safety agencies working to improve cardiac arrest survival rates through improved bystander performance... read more

Manual vs. Integrated Automatic Load-distributing Band CPR with Equal Survival after out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Between March 5, 2009 and January 11, 2011 a randomized, unblinded, controlled group sequential trial of adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrests of presumed cardiac origin was conducted at three US and two European sites. After... read more

Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation

In recent years there have been many developments in post-resuscitation care. We have investigated trends in patient characteristics and outcome following admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation... read more