Saving More than Double the Cardiac Arrest Victims Now Possible

Take Heart America, a national cardiac arrest survival initiative, will unveil its expanded 2016 Bundle of Care on October 20th in Minneapolis, MN at a national meeting that will be attended by over 50 national leaders in resuscitation medicine, science and industry. Take Heart America, a national non-profit organization, works with communities across the United States to implement the lifesaving continuum of treatments necessary to save their friends, families, and loved ones who experience cardiac arrest. The organization works with communities who choose to proactively implement the training, equipment, and care needed to save every life from cardiac arrest that can be saved. Twelve states currently have emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, hospitals and health systems that serve as Take Heart America sites, actively providing systematic care that more than doubles a person’s chance of survival as compared to non-participating EMS systems that are not implanting the Bundle of Care for patient resuscitation. According to Dr. Tom Aufderheide, a nationally recognized cardiac arrest expert, the 2016 Bundle of Care, which incorporates the general public, first responders and EMS, hospitals and post discharge care, has the potential to increase survival by more than double existing rates if followed by communities, EMS agencies, hospitals, and health care systems. Aufderheide notes that annually, over 600,000 people experience cardiac arrest in the United States and a pe...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Cardiac & Resuscitation Industry News Source Type: news