Highlights from the 2017 European EMS Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark

Medical students worked for a year to make all of the Danish citizens aware of the need to perform CPR as soon as possible after a cardiac arrest.  Denmark has one of the world's most responsive citizen response to cardiac arrest. This year an "army" of 658 volunteers who designed a program to have people all over Denmark perform near perfect CPR for 30 seconds. Named "TryFoden World Record for Life," the massive endeavor was designed to occur over a 12-hour time period during the European EMS Conference in Copenhagen. Laerdal was an active, outstanding partner in this effort. Coordinated and tabulated countrywide yesterday, the program exceeded their goal and had 5,770 people perform their 30 second CPR segment - a world's record. Additional highlights from Tuesday’s sessions: Dr. Michael Sayre followed with an inspiring program on high performance CPR and the role of the Global Resuscitation Alliance in spreading best practices in resuscitation around the world.  In the past year, the Global Resuscitation Alliance has conducted 27 Resuscitation Academy programs throughout the world. A "Heartrunner" program will begin soon in Copenhagen with a goal of having AED-equipped responders (mostly citizens) alerted by an app. London's GoodSam app was touted as the world's most advanced citizen alerting system. Several key programs in Asia were discussed along with an advanced registry and radomized trials underway in Australia. The CARES pr...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Training News Source Type: news