Cardiac arrest often strikes seemingly healthy individuals without warning and without regard to age, gender, race, or health status. Representing the third leading cause of death in the United States, cardiac arrest is defined as “a severe malfunction or cessation of the electrical and mechanical activity of the heart ... [which] results in almost instantaneous loss of consciousness and collapse”. Although the exact number of cardiac arrests is unknown, conservative estimates suggest that approximately 600,000 individuals experience a cardiac arrest in the United States each year.

In June 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its consensus report Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival: A Time to Act, which evaluated the factors affecting resuscitation research and outcomes in the United States. Following the release of this report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to hold a workshop to explore the barriers and opportunities for advancing the IOM recommendations. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Contents

• The National Academies of SCIENCES • ENGINEERING • MEDICINE
• PLANNING COMMITTEE ON A DISSEMINATION WORKSHOP ON THE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE CARDIAC ARREST SURVIVAL REPORT
• Reviewers
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
  • IMPROVING THE CHAIN OF SURVIVAL
    Tom Aufderheide, Planning Committee Chair.
  • SURVIVING CARDIAC ARREST: THE REASON FOR ACTION
  • WORKSHOP THEMES
  • REFERENCES
• 2. Building a National Cardiac Arrest Surveillance System
  • ENVISIONING NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE FOR CARDIAC ARREST
  • BREAKOUT SESSION REPORT: ENVISIONING NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE
    Planning Committee Members: Lance Becker and Dianne Atkins.
  • REFERENCES
• 3. Advancing Cardiac Arrest Research and Translation
  • CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION
  • BREAKOUT SESSION REPORT: ACCELERATING RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION
    Planning Committee Members: Jeremy Brown and Arthur Sanders.
  • REFERENCES
• 4. Improving Public Awareness and Training
  • CRYSTALLIZING MESSAGING TO PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS
    Robert M. Davis.
  • INVESTING IN PATIENT ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EDUCATORS TO CHANGE POLICY
    Joanne Howes.
  • PUBLIC AWARENESS AND TRAINING: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE ACTION
    Raina Merchant.
  • BREAKOUT SESSION REPORT: ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
    Planning Committee Member: Paul Pepe.
  • BREAKOUT SESSION REPORT: FOSTERING A CULTURE OF ACTION IN COMMUNITIES THROUGH POLICY
    Planning Committee Member: Marina Del Rios.
  • BREAKOUT SESSION REPORT: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AS A PUBLIC HEALTH TOOL
    Planning Committee Member: Raina Merchant.
  • REFERENCES
• 5. Enhancing the Emergency Medical Services Response to Cardiac Arrest
  • CARDIAC ARREST AS A POLICY PRIORITY
    Myron Weisfeldt.
  • DISPATCHER-ASSISTED CPR: CURRENT PROGRESS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
    Drew Dawson.
  • ACHIEVING STANDARDIZATION AND ADOPTION OF HIGH-QUALITY CPR PERFORMANCE ACROSS THE COUNTRY
    Arthur Kellermann.
  • PROMOTING QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROCESSES IN EMS SYSTEMS
    Peter Taillac.
  • BREAKOUT SESSION REPORT: DISPATCHER-ASSISTED CPR
    Planning Committee Member: Paul Pepe.
  • BREAKOUT SESSION PREPORT: CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN EMS SYSTEMS
    Planning Committee Member: Arthur Sanders.
  • REFERENCES
• 6. Enhancing Hospital Response to Cardiac Arrest
  • CURRENT EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE HOSPITAL ACCREDITATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN CARDIAC ARREST
    Mimi Peberdy.
  • CHILDREN AND CARDIAC ARREST: IMPLICATIONS OF THE IOM REPORT
    Vinay Nadkarni.
  • FROM PLAYBOOK TO POLICY: ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP
    Edward Septimus.
  • BREAKOUT SESSION REPORT: IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF HOSPITAL RESPONSE TO CARDIAC ARREST
    Planning Committee Member: Dianne Atkins.
  • REFERENCES
• 7. Effective Collaboration for Cardiac Arrest
  • FROM THE IOM REPORT TO FORMAL COLLABORATION: EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS
    Vicky Whittemore.
  • COLLABORATION AND NATIONAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS IN STROKE
    Mark Alberts.
  • BREAKOUT SESSION REPORTS: ESTABLISHING A CARDIAC ARREST COLLABORATIVE
    Planning Committee Members: Tom Aufderheide, Richard Bradley, and Lance Becker.
  • REFERENCES
• APPENDIXES
  • A. Recommendations from the Institute of Medicine Report Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival: A Time to Act
  • B. Workshop Agenda

Rapporteurs: Andrea M. Schultz and Margaret A. McCoy.

Suggested citation:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Exploring strategies to improve cardiac arrest survival: Proceedings of a workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23695.