NIH R01 · 2025
Improving Quality in Cardiac Arrest via Resuscitation academy Training: The IQ-CART study
PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT The public health burden of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is enormous, affecting ~350,000 individuals each year in the U.S. and is the third leading cause of death. Although overall survival is low (~10%), some emergency medical service (EMS) agencies are able to achieve higher survival rates for OHCA than others. In 2008, the King County EMS system, known for their excellence in prehospital OHCA care, in collaboration with the University of Washington, formed the Resuscitation Academy to share best practices that have been codified as 6 key domains of quality improvement in resuscitation care. Since its first class, many EMS agencies from around the world…
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