Hospitalists and In-Hospital Resuscitation

WEBCAST ON CD

In partnership with The Society of Hospital Medicine

presented on June 30, 2008

State of the art in-house resuscitation is failing. Your hospitalist team can help!

Although there are accepted clinical guidelines for in-house resuscitation, hospital leaders and clinicians struggle to translate those guidelines into practice. Two recent high-profile articles in peer reviewed journals have highlighted the critical importance of this topic.

Establish best practices to improve the quality of pre- and post-arrest care at your facility.

Listen to HCPro and SHM for Hospitalists and In-Hospital Resuscitation: Improve Protocols, Teamwork, and Outcomes and gain practical strategies to develop an effective multi-disciplinary approach to resuscitation medicine. This 90-minute Webcast will provide hospitalists and other healthcare professionals with tips to:

• Develop organization-specific in-house resuscitation protocols
• Improve in-house resuscitation
• Measure and document the quality of in-house resuscitation
• Educate colleagues

Learn to translate guidelines into an effective patient care protocol supported by the entire healthcare team.

A hospitalist's training and skills cover acute medicine and resuscitation medicine, chronic and multi-system problems, as well as aged care and end-of-life care. As such, hospitalists play a vital role in educating the patient care team and establishing the best possible resuscitation procedures. With purchase, you will learn to measure and document the quality of your resuscitation program and implement process improvements to translate guidelines into action.

Agenda

1. Landscape of in-house resuscitation
   1. Epidemiology & recent literature
   2. Costs, burdens, etc.
   3. Room for improvement
2. American Heart Association guidelines
3. Quality issues related to resuscitation procedures & CPR
   1. Elements of failure
   2. Translating guidelines into practice
4. Evidence-based approach to improving outcomes from in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA)
   1. Audiovisual feedback
   2. Debriefing
   3. Simulation
5. The bowtie model of resuscitation
   1. Preventing IHCA (RRT)
   2. Post-resuscitation care (hypothermia)
6. Leveraging institutional resources to effect change
   1. Code Blue Committee
   2. Hospitalists
   3. Data collection (Utstein templates/NRCPR)
   4. Standardization of equipment
7. Role of hospitalists in addressing issues
   1. Debriefing
   2. Simulation
   3. Training
   4. Role of code blue committee
   5. Standardization of equipment
8. Next steps
9. Q&A

Learning objectives

At the conclusion of this Webcast, purchasers will be able to:

1. Explain the burden of in-hospital cardiac arrest
2. Describe the most recent and important evidence-based medicine approaches to improving outcomes from cardiac arrest
3. State helpful ways to getting the most out of hospital resources, including code blue committees to improve outcomes
4. State the benefits of pre- and post-arrest care, including in-hospital cardiac arrest prevention and treatment for survivors

Bonus tools included in your materials packet

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this Webcast, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials. These materials are provided with PDF links.

Meet the speakers

Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil, is the clinical research director at the Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, and the chair of the Hospital Cardiac Arrest Committee and attending physician in emergency medicine at the Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania. Abella received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed residencies in internal medicine and emergency medicine, as well as a research fellowship in resuscitation science, at the University of Chicago. He received a Masters degree in genetics from Cambridge University, United Kingdom. After joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 2006, Abella's research focused on CPR quality and education, post-resuscitation injury, in-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes, and the use of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. He has published scholarly work in peer-reviewed journals such as Critical Care Medicine and Circulation, authored textbook chapters, and lectures frequently on the topics of cardiac arrest and resuscitation nationally and internationally. He has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and several industry collaborations, and has won a number of awards for his research and teaching efforts.

Dana P. Edelson, MD, MS, obtained her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Edelson completed her residency in internal medicine and two fellowships (one in resuscitation research and a second in hospital medicine) at the University of Chicago, where she remains on faculty as a hospitalist researcher. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, Edelson serves as associate chair of the CPR Committee, director of clinical research for the Emergency Resuscitation Center, and chair of the Rapid Response Team Committee. Her research interests include in-hospital cardiac arrest, CPR quality, and resuscitation team training. She is widely published and has received numerous awards for her work. Her research is supported by an American Heart Association Career Development Grant and several industry grants.

Who will benefit?

Hospitalists, hospitalist program directors, surgeons, academic community administrators, risk managers, quality managers, medical staff leaders, and department chairs, critical care nursing, critical care physicians, cardiologists, rapid response teams

Purchase a CD of the program and listen to it it when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher course for veteran staff.

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