Research activities  
An overview of our research policy and activities.
 
 
Recent research activities, including some of the projects which we have funded are listed below.
 

Recognising cardiac arrest animation project  
Rescuers often fail to recognize cardiac arrest. This causes a delay in starting cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and this decreases the victim's chances of survival. A common reason for not starting CPR is the presence of a period of agonal breathing (gasping) after the heart stops. This is often mistaken for normal breathing. Training rescuers to recognize the signs of cardiac arrest using manikins is difficult. As well as the ethical issues involved in using video clips from actual cardiac arrests, trainees may also find real videos disturbing. Using short animations offers an alternative way to teach recognition of the signs of cardiac arrest.
 
The Resuscitation Council (UK) sponsored a project at the Bristol School of Animation, University of West of England. Second and third year students individually or in teams pitched their ideas to the Council. The 4 best ideas were funded to produce animations.
      View the animations
 
 

National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA)  
The Resuscitation Council (UK) and The Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) are collaborating to develop a nationwide database of cardiac arrests that take place in hospital.   The aim is to enable analysis of all in-hospital cardiac arrests and to compare the frequency of, and outcome from, cardiac arrest between hospitals.
 
Overview of the organisation and status of NCAA.
 
 

National database of AED use  
The Resuscitation Council (UK) is co-ordinating a national survey
of the use of AEDs in the community by first responders and other lay persons.
 
Overview of the AED survey.
 
Abstract of the article in "Resuscitation" describing
the early results of the survey.
 
Abstract of the article in "Resuscitation" describing
the design of the universal report form for the survey.
 
 

ACUTE initiative  
The Acute Care Undergraduate TEaching (ACUTE) initiative
is a project aiming to develop recommendations for a
national curriculum for medical students promoting teaching
in the provision of safe care for acutely ill patients.
 
For more details, please click here.
 
 

In-hospital cardiac arrest study  
The Resuscitation Council (UK) supported a study into in-hospital
cardiac arrests covering a six-month period during 1997.
 
The results of this study were published in the journal "Resuscitation" Volume 47 No. 2, October 2000, pages 125-135.
The paper is titled "Outcome after cardiac arrest in adults in UK hospitals: effect of the 1997 guidelines", authors Carl L Gwinnutt et al.
 
The abstract of the paper is reproduced here.
 
"Resuscitation" is the official journal of the European Resuscitation Council, published by Elsevier Science. Links to the websites of these organisations appear on our links page.
 
 

National Audit of Paediatric Resuscitation  
Background information
on the National Audit of Paediatric Resuscitation (NAPR) study.
 
 

Studies presented as free papers
   at the 2010 Scientific Symposium
 
A number of free papers were presented at the November 2010
Scientific Symposium, covering various aspects of resuscitation
and resuscitation training.
  Free paper abstracts  2010 Symposium
 
Abstracts of free papers presented at earlier Scientific Symposia:
  2009 Symposium
  2007 Symposium
  2006 Symposium
 
 
 

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