Interdisciplinary ICU cardiac arrest debriefing improves survival outcomes.

Heather Wolfe; Carleen Zebuhr; Alexis A. Topjian; Akira Nishisaki; Dana E. Niles; Peter A. Meaney; Lori Boyle; Rita T. Giordano; Daniela Davis; Margaret Priestley; Michael Apkon; Robert A. Berg; Vinay Nadkarni; Robert M. Sutton

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Interdisciplinary ICU cardiac arrest debriefing improves survival outcomes.

May 25, 2016

Wolfe H, Zebuhr C, Topjian AA, et al. Crit Care Med. 2014;42(7):1688-95.

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This single-center prospective study found that providing interdisciplinary post-event debriefs with quantitative feedback on chest compression depth, rate, and other indicators of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation significantly improved cardiac arrest outcomes in a pediatric intensive care unit.

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