Acute cardiac care & resuscitation

The American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care 2030 Impact Goals and Call to Action to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

CirculationPublished Scientific statement

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. Priorities: bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, early defibrillation and neurologically intact survival

  2. Aspirational goal: establish cardiac arrest as a reportable disease and mandate reporting of standardized outcomes from different sources

  3. Aspirational goal: advance recognition of and knowledge about cardiac arrest

  4. Aspirational goal: improve dispatch system response, and availability of and access to resuscitation training in multiple settings and at multiple time points

  5. Aspirational goal: improve availability, access and affordability of defibrillators

  6. Aspirational goal: focus on early defibrillation and in-hospital programs, and establish champions for debriefing and review of cardiac arrest events

  7. Aspirational goal: expand measures to track outcomes beyond survival

Original publication

The American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care 2030 Impact Goals and Call to Action to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. Published 22 January 2024. doi:10.1161/cir.0000000000001196

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