Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit - Call for Proposals is Open!
Please see below for details on the summit, and the call for proposals. The SCA Foundation will be attending this event, and we hope to see you there!
CASSummit:
Dec. 3-6, 2025 | Arizona Grand Resort & Spa, Phoenix
Seconds to Act — Empowering the Response to Cardiac Arrest and Life-Threatening Emergencies
Engage our communities with a systems approach to time-sensitive emergencies
Citizen CPR Foundation’s biennial conference, the Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit, convenes later this year at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix (Dec. 3-6, 2025).
The conference Call for Presentations is now open. The website has a variety of resources, including info about the conference, the location, the audience, submission rules and the portal to submit your presentation. Submissions close at 11:59 p.m. ET on March 14, 2025.
The Summit has been around for more than 40 years and is known as a key education and networking hub for resuscitation practitioners, educators, experts, researchers (both prehospital and hospital), survivors and advocates.
This year it's expanding its focus to apply systems-based cardiac arrest research, tactics and insight to effectively address and improve outcomes for a wider range of time-sensitive emergencies, including drowning, opioid overdose and uncontrolled hemorrhaging, among others.
See below for a message from Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit Program Chair and GMR Chief Medical Officer, Ed Racht, MD:
Greetings to everyone:
On behalf of the 2025 Summit Program Committee and the talented and insightful guidance of many leaders in CCPRF, we’re excited to share our theme and the thought process around creating a stimulating, memorable and educationally fulfilling Summit in Phoenix.
It’s hard to believe that the 2025 Summit will mark 45 years since the inaugural event in 1980! Thousands of attendees and participants have learned from the best, explored the evolving science and benefitted from the experience practitioners, scientists and educators committed to improving systems of care for resuscitation. Those memorable meetings and opportunities for interaction have directly impacted our collective abilities to prepare for and care for patients suffering from sudden cardiac arrest.
As you know, in the past the Summit occasionally entertained topics when the heart was stopped not by disease but by other conditions such as trauma, overdoses or drowning. Unfortunately, in today’s world, we now face many new challenges in other time-sensitive, critical conditions. The Program Committee recognized that the successes and principles of developing systems of care for the arrested patient are also applicable to these other events.
In choosing this year’s focus and theme, we have expanded our topics and reach to use our lessons learned, research, and best practices to address the preparation, identification and care in resuscitating patients whose hearts have stopped no matter the cause.
We’re really excited about the expansion of the conference and the opportunity to create a Summit that is valuable to an even broader group committed to caring for time-sensitive conditions.
Sudden cardiac arrest from disease is still the foundation of our conference, but we recognize the need for more information and education around these increasingly urgent topics. Examples include stop-the-bleed and opioid overdose interventions. Frankly, what we’ve focused on in previous years can help lead the way in improving survival in many other conditions. And our target audience is exactly the right group.
We’re really excited about the expansion of the conference and the opportunity to create a Summit that is valuable to an even broader group committed to caring for time-sensitive conditions.
We look forward to the journey over the next several months to assemble the best of the best.
See you in Phoenix!
On behalf of the Program Committee,
Ed
Edward M. Racht, MD, CASS 2025 Program Chair
Chief Medical Officer, Global Medical Response, GMR Medicine
Click for video from Ed: https://bit.ly/4hByVyl
Call for Presentations closes at 11:59 p.m. ET on March 14, 2025
Details & submission link: https://www.citizencprsummit.org/call-for-presentations/