Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study Measures Care for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a global health concern. EMS systems around the world face challenges in terms of increasing workload and limited resources. Cardiac arrest registries can play an important role in helping to drive policy and improve outcomes for OHCA. In 2010, the Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS) Clinical Research Network (CRN) was established in collaboration with countries across Asia, including Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and UAE-Dubai. The CRN has since expanded to include China, India, Pakistan, UAE-Abu Dhabi, Vietnam, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Indonesia in the past two years. International participants in the PAROS cardiac arrest registry. You can’t improve what you can’t measure The CRN aims to provide a better understanding of OHCA trends in Asia by collecting data on OHCA patients to will help quality improvement efforts and improve survival rates. This Asia-Pacific cardiac arrest registry will help to provide international benchmarking and study best practices in Asian EMS systems. Our long-term aim is to increase community awareness, change attitudes toward prehospital emergency care and to improve survival rates, in addition to recording an objective evaluation of the EMS system and community-level interventions. The registry will also provide a unique opportunity for analysis of preventable risk factors and systematic predictors for survival of OHCA. With these objectives in mind...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: International Cardiac & Resuscitation Source Type: news