RESUSCITATE! How Your Community Can Improve Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Sudden cardiac arrest can strike anyone at any time. But in many cities, people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest are up to 46 times more likely to die than those who experience cardiac arrest in Seattle and King County, Washington, or Rochester, Minnesota--an astonishing and completely preventable variance in survival rates.
In Resuscitate!, Mickey S. Eisenberg, MD, an expert in emergency medical services (EMS), identifies 50 factors associated with the likelihood of surviving cardiac arrest and lays out 25 specific steps involved in raising a community's cardiac arrest survival rate. He offers recommendations for immediate and long-term improvement of EMS services, with actions that can be taken at local and national levels that will ultimately benefit anyone who needs emergency care, for any reason.
"If you care about sudden cardiac arrest in your community and how emergency medical services respond to this critical emergency, I can think of no more important book than this, " said Roger D. White, M.D., Mayo Clinic and Medical Director, City of Rochester and Olmsted County Early Defibrillation Program, in the Foreword.
For more information, visit: http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/EISRES.html.