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Improve in-hospital cardiac arrest survival

Hospitalist Leadership Connection, July 1, 2008

There are currently 300,000 deaths each year resulting from cardiac arrest, says Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil, clinical research director at the Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania, speaking at an HCPro and SHM Webcast on Monday. Three-fourths of all cardiac arrest cases occur outside of the hospital, and the survival rate is only one to five percent. A quarter of all cardiac arrests happen at the hospital with a higher, but still limited, survival rate of only 10-20 percent. Abella and Dana P. Edelson, MD, MS, of the University of Chicago recommend the following protocols to improve in-hospital resuscitation:

• Implement stimulation training for residents and new hospitalists
• Standardize deliberator equipment in high criticality areas
• Use real-time audiovisual feedback equipment to provide prompts when resuscitation techniques are administered incorrectly
• Connect hospitalists with members of the rapid response team and code committee to discuss and evaluate data and success rates

To find out more on how to implement a resuscitation protocol at your hospital, you may purchase the HCPro Inc. Webcast, in partnership with SHM, “Hospitalists and In-Hospital Resuscitation: Improve Protocols, Teamwork, and Outcomes.”

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