2016 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Print > Feature Article - General Interest > More Than $3 Million Revenue > Upper Midwest

Awarded to

John Erich, Senior Editor

Entry details

Heads-Up CPR: Can It Improve Outcomes?

Issue date (if applicable): 8/1/2015
Publication name: EMS World
Publishing company: SouthComm Publishing
Website home page: www.emsworld.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

EMS World is the largest and oldest U.S. trade publication serving emergency medical services professionals. Its audience includes paramedics, EMTs, first responders, emergency physicians and nurses, and others involved in prehospital care across the range of service-delivery models.

With a monthly print edition, popular website (www.emsworld.com) and associate educational conference and trade show (EMS World Expo), it covers the latest news, clinical developments and operational insights supporting the delivery of EMS, with a particular focus o

Readers incorporate EMS World’s content each month directly into their daily missions of saving lives and reducing suffering.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

Despite years of research and constant efforts to improve resuscitation practices, survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S. remain low. Now some top emergency physicians are investigating a CPR modification—elevating the head by 30 degrees—that, with some other key steps, shows great promise in early tests involving lab pigs. Preliminary data suggest the head-up tilt helps increase key metrics like coronary and cerebral perfusion pressure and reduce dangerous intracranial pressure. While human trials have yet to begin, several fire-rescue departments in South Florida are so convinced of heads-up CPR’s promise, they’re already using it on patients.

This article interviews the cardiologist leading the concept and the two physicians putting it into practice in Florida, where it's already showing positive results.

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