Life-Saving Treatment Models - Professor Stephen Nicholls and Lecturer, Brian Haskins

For every one minute that CPR isn’t carried out, a person’s chances of surviving a cardiac arrest are significantly reduced. Professor Stephen Nicholls and Lecturer, Brian Haskins examine the life-saving treatment models such as bystander CPR and the introduction of new therapies to improve health outcomes in our communities. The annual report of the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry shows that 63% of bystander witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests received bystander CPR, of these 16% survived and were discharged alive from hospital. Increasing the rate of bystander CPR to 90% would see a corresponding increase in survival rate to 23%. The report also shows a survival to hospital discharge of 64% for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who were first defibrillated with a public access AED. By increasing the availability of public access AEDs and encouraging bystanders to deliver early defibrillation, we could achieve a survival rate of over 80%. (Ambulance Victoria Cardiac Arrest Registry, 2018). --- FIND OUT MORE: Monash Lens 'Cardiovascular disease: Getting to the heart of the matter': https://lens.monash.edu/@stephen-nicholls/2019/08/26/1376258/cardiovascular-disease-getting-to-the-heart-of-the-matter Monash University research: http://www.monash.edu/medicine/research Monash School of Primary and Allied Health Care: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/spahc