An
estimated 200,000 patients in the United States suffer a cardiac arrest
in the hospital each year. Yet despite media portrayals to the contrary,
the survival rate from this condition is less than 20%. Unfortunately,
current resuscitation guidelines focus disproportionately on the
out-of-hospital setting and do not always translate well to the
in-hospital setting for various reasons.
There is a need for
hospitals to develop and implement resuscitation protocols and training
that recognize the uniqueness of the hospital environment. This new
model must address the "bow tie" model of in-hospital cardiac arrest,
which consists of three elements:
Prevention of cardiac arrest
Cardiac resuscitation
Post-resuscitation care
The role of the hospitalist is integral to developing these new
guidelines. Hospitalists must lead, coordinate and/or
participate in measures along with other key team members on the "front
lines" to inform the code committee on key areas to improve patient
outcomes.
Resuscitation
Resource Center Project Team This resource
center is sponsored in part by unrestricted grants from Philips
Healthcare, Zoll Medical Corporation, Laerdal Medical,
and Medtronic
Disclaimer
The Resuscitation Resource Room is an online resource for visitors to
the Society of Hospital Medicine's website. All content and links have
been reviewed by the Resuscitation Resource Center Project Team;
however, the Society of Hospital Medicine does not exercise any
editorial control over content associated with the external links that
have been made available via this
website.
This Resource Center is sponsored by the Alliance to Advance Patient
Nutrition, a partnership of healthcare organizations dedicated to the
education of effective hospital nutrition practices to help improve
patients' medical outcomes and support all clinicians in collaborating
on hospital-wide nutrition procedures. The Alliance to Advance Patient
Nutrition is made possible with support from Abbott Nutrition.
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