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Community Response and Drone Technology to Improve Outcomes from Rural and Remote Cardiac Arrest: The Future is Here!
Webinar recorded on April 23, 2021
Webinar Description
While it has been shown that bystander interventions can improve survival from OHCA, rates of bystander CPR and AED usage remain depressingly low in many communities. Most reported rates of bystander CPR are below 40% and have been reported to be as low as 10% in some places. Many communities continue to focus on increasing the number of people trained in CPR and the placement of more AEDs, hoping this will translate into higher rates of bystander CPR and AED use.
However, for the most part, this has not been the case. As rates of bystander intervention remain low, it appears these strategies, in isolation, may not be as effective as previously thought. One shortcoming with increasing the number of public AEDs, is that their quarters of cardiac arrest occur in private locations where public access AEDs are unavailable. Novel strategies are required to improve bystander intervention and decrease the time to defibrillation in private locations.
Our presentation will highlight the impact of new cutting-edge use of community responders and drone technology to improve time to first shock in not only rural and remote communities, but also in private locations, illustrating the concept of private access defibrillation.
Meet Your Presenters
Dr. Sheldon Cheskes | Associate Professor | University of Toronto
He was the principal investigator for the recently completed FIRST study, exploring the impact of remote ischemic conditioning to reduce reperfusion injury in ST- elevation myocardial infarction, and is the principal investigator of the DOuble Sequential External Defibrillation in Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation (DOSE VF) trial. This study will be the first cluster randomized trial to clinically evaluate two novel therapeutic defibrillation strategies (double sequential external defibrillation and vector change defibrillation) against standard practice for patients remaining in refractory ventricular fibrillation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He is also studying methods to improve public access defibrillation in rural and remote areas through the use of community responder programs and drone delivery of automated external defibrillators.
