Improving CPR Outcomes and Episode 181
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Tip of the Week Interview with Dr. Mickey Eisenberg
In a special joint interview set up by Greg Friese of the EMS Educast podcast, I got the opportunity to chat on the phone with Dr. Mickey Eisenberg and the guys from the Educast.
We talked about Dr. Eisenberg’s book challenging communities and EMS systems to change the way they look at cardiac arrest, survivability and code management. His book is titled – “Resuscitate: How your community can improve survival from sudden cardiac arrest.”
Comments were bandied about like:
“Communities could approach a greater than 50% sudden cardiac arrest survival rate . . .”
or
“V-Fib is a benign ventricular rhythm treatable by the application of therapeutic shock.”
A great discussion that definitely requires more comment and promotion within your system. Let me know what you think about this program and Dr. Eisenberg’s comments.
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What a great, refreshing angle on the voodoo VF cardiac arrest situation……who here has not been presented with a VF patient? Now we can look on it as a treatable malignant condition, just apply a little electricity!
Also education into aganal breathing……well done! a breathing patient does not always have a pulse!!!
Also bringing up the idea about public service bradcasting to highlight public CPR training! Here in WA most of the ‘non for profit’ bodies such as St John Ambulance charge a great deal of money to learn CPR and First Aid………with public funding why can’t it be free? Why can’t it be a public service?
Jerry,
I can’t agree with you more! I think that some form of public CPR should be funded by the community either through grants or local business support!
The biggest thing I came away with after this interview was the need for a paradigm shift – a fundamental shift in view – of how we approach our cardiac arrest calls.
This interview and the results of countless agencies around the country point out the effectiveness of refocusing our efforts on aggressive treatment of cardiac arrest patients in some pretty novel ways.
The article turned on yet another light bulb for me. I am regularly reading material that causes me to re-think our processes and wanting to find a better way to do things.
I previously worked for a service who was very pro-active in public education and public access AED. Being a public funded agency, education was part of the budget and received support from city hall. For areas where ems is being provided by a private entity, there should clearly be some sort of public funding to cover the costs as Jerry stated.
As you said Jamie, there is a need for a paradigm shift of how we approach cardiac arrest calls. The problem is getting others to follow. We are still having problems getting medics to understand why pre-hospital 12 leads are vital to patient outcomes and look at how long that concept has been around