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Concurrent Block #2

Community Strategies & Survivorship

Understanding & Supporting the Lay Responder Experience

Experiential Summary: Lay Responder Debriefings

Thursday, November 30, 2023
11:40 AM – 11:55 AM PST
Location: Town and Country Ballroom C

    Primary Presenter(s)

  • Paul J. Snobelen

    Specialist, Community Safety & Resuscitation Programs
    Peel Regional Paramedic Services
    Brampton, ON, Canada

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

    • Moderator(s)

  • Steven B. Tannenbaum

    Vice-Chair
    Parent Heart Watch
    Merrick, New York, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

Disclosure(s):
Paul J. Snobelen: No financial relationships to disclose
Summary: A novel look at data collected through Peel Regional Paramedic Services Lay Responder Support Model program. Highlighting important insightinto Lay-Responder perceptions, observations, motivations, and cognitive responses post incident.

Synopsis: The presentation will summarize both the qualitative and quantitative experiential feedback actual Lay responders who have acted to save a life

Learning Objectives:

  • Very few EMS services or organizations have formally built a Lay-responder program, and those organizations that do offer support typically do not collect the data in a formal way. This poster presentation is to ultimately challenge those to use this data to challenge the status-quo, influence resuscitation science, and potential influence resuscitation education.
  • This presentation will include 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.
  • This presentation will include strategies for implementing data collection and quality improvement programs in an ECC system to support accountability and reporting.
  • This presentation will describe three (3) strategies for implementing effective support systems for cardiac arrest victims, survivors and their families and rescuers.
  • This presentation will describe one or more survivor / rescuer stories that can be used to illustrate an effective chain of survival for cardiac arrest.