Bundles of Care as a Formula for Resuscitation Success

This article focuses on the critical role of first responders and advanced cardiac life support personnel in the treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. It will illustrate how the Take Heart America bundle of care approach has helped to transform the landscape of care for sudden cardiac arrest across the country. Ten years after Ben was successfully resuscitated, the bundle of care has continued to develop. Its implementation contributes to the fact that Minnesota has the best resuscitation outcomes of any state in the nation. A Moving Target For decades, we’ve essentially prescribed to a moving target of guidelines and an attempt of standardization of approaches to breathe life and essential circulation back into the lifeless bodies of cardiac arrest patients.
Source: JEMS Patient Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Cardiac & Resuscitation Source Type: news