General Session

American Heart Association Hot Topics in Science: Survivorship

Primary Presenter(s)

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  Kelly Sawyer, MD, MS

  Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine
  University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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  Cameron Dezfulian, MD, FAHA

  Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science
  University of Pittsburgh
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  Vinay Nadkarni, MD, MS

  Endowed Chair of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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  Benjamin Abella Abella, MD MPhil

  Director, Center for Resuscitation Science
  University of Pennsylvania
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  Michael Kurz, MD, MS-HES, FACEP

  Associate Professor
  University of Alabama School of Medicine

Survivor Moderator(s)

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  Rob Hoadley

The American Heart Association presents the latest hot topics in science including Survivorship, Opioids, T-CPR, and Ethical Debates in Resuscitation.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe three (3) ways to educate citizens that can lead to a comprehensive change to a culture of excellence and improved CPR training in the community, schools and workplace.
• List and describe how to implement three (3) elements of a comprehensive dispatch CPR and/or rapid dispatch program.
• List and describe three (3) ways to advance Public Access AED placement and utilization.
• List and describe three (3) components of a high quality collaborative cardiovascular and resuscitation program in a dispatch, EMS and / or healthcare system that has demonstrated improvement in survival from SCA.
• List and describe three (3) strategies for implementing data collection and quality improvement programs in an ECC system to support accountability and reporting.
• Describe three (3) strategies for implementing effective support systems for cardiac arrest victims, survivors and their families and rescuers.
• identify changes or new 2019 AHA guidelines
• understand the values and preferences that explain changes in 2019 AHA guidelines
• understand the process of evidence evaluation and challenges with knowledge translation and implementation via contextualization of guidelines
• List and describe one or more survivor / rescuer stories that can be used to illustrate an effective chain of survival for cardiac arrest.