1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797899703321

Titolo

Strategies to improve cardiac arrest survival : a time to act / / Committee on the Treatment of Cardiac Arrest: Current Status and Future Directions, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies ; Robert Graham, Margaret A. McCoy, and Andrea M. Schultz, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-309-37202-X

0-309-37200-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 437 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

616.129

Soggetti

Cardiac arrest - Treatment

Cardiovascular system - Diseases - Prevention - Research

Cardiovascular system - Diseases - Risk factors - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Understanding the public health burden of cardiac arrest: the need for national surveillance -- The public experience with cardiac arrest -- Emergency medical services response to cardiac arrest -- In-hospital cardiac arrest and post-arrest care -- Resuscitation research and continuous quality improvement -- Recommendations and key opportunities -- Appendixes: A. Acronyms -- B. Meeting agendas -- C. Committee biographies -- D. Selected results from commissioned analyses -- E. Map of U.S. states with CPR training as a graduation requirement -- F. Utstein guideline-endorsed data elements for reporting out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.