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Concurrent Block #2

911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement

Putting the Power of the Resuscitation Academy to Work

Resuscitation Academy Germany

Thursday, November 30, 2023
11:40 AM – 12:05 PM PST
Location: Town and Country Ballroom B

    Primary Presenter(s)

  • Jan Thorsten Graesner, MD (he/him/his)

    Director Institute for emergency medicine
    University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
    Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    Disclosure(s): Weinmann emergency: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Zoll: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing)

    • Co-Presenter(s)

  • Leonie Hannappel, MDM (she/her/hers)

    Deputy Director Institute for Emergency Medicine
    University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
    Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

    • Moderator(s)

  • Joshua Smith, NRP

    Captain/Paramedic
    Richland Fire & Emergency Services
    Richland, WA, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

Disclosure(s):
Jan Thorsten Graesner, MD: Weinmann emergency: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Zoll: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing)
Leonie Hannappel, MDM: No financial relationships to disclose
Summary: In collaboration with the Seattle Resuscitation Academy Foundation, German resuscitation experts have constructed a two- year project to optimize the system of care for OHCA patients

Synopsis: The German Resuscitation Academy was developed together with the Seattle RA Foundation. They designed a two-year ongoing project with workshops, extensive networking, and publications. Participants choose one or more tasks to optimize their local system of care for OHCA, within the context of the worldwide activity of the global resuscitation alliance.. This presentation provides information for all steps of the program for those who want to set up their own Academy

Learning Objectives:

  • Treatment in cardiac arrest is a team approach, not only for the EMS team. A system is needed. We describe the German version of the resuscitation academy program that helps to save 10,000 lives more every year.
  • This presentation will include 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.
  • This presentation will discuss how to implement three (3) elements of a comprehensive dispatch CPR and/or rapid dispatch program.
  • This presentation will discuss ways to advance Public Access AED placement and utilization.
  • 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.