Survival increases with clinical team debriefing after in-hospital cardiac arrest
Monday, August 4, 2014 - 15:01
in Health & Medicine
Staff members who joined structured team debriefings after emergency care for children suffering in-hospital cardiac arrests improved their CPR performance and substantially increased rates of patients surviving with favorable neurological outcomes. More than 200,000 cardiac arrests occur every year in U.S. hospitals. And while survival outcomes have improved over the last ten years, still more than 60 percent of these patients will not make it out of the hospital alive. This fact highlights how important it will be to disseminate the team’s successful findings.