M-TEMS Develops Cardiac Arrest Program
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Joe [email protected]
The One Heart Program was developed to help improve the sudden cardiac arrest survival rate in Kosciusko County.
“We’ve found through data collection some areas where we as a community need to improve to increase the survival rate from sudden cardiac arrest,” said Tony Doyle, MTEMS public relations.
The overall goals of One Heart are to: increase the number of bystanders taught CPR to 10 percent of the population, or 5,000 people in Kosciusko County; create an automated external defibrilator, or AED, registry to provide to central dispatch; train dispatchers in most recent dispatcher assisted CPR; continued quality assurance program to study how to improve survival of SCA; and to improve first responder care and response to cardiac arrest.
So far, 1,700 people in the county have learned CPR, and with the help of Kosciusko Community Hospital, high-risk families were also trained.
Nearly 80 percent of cardiac arrests occur in the home, which is why One Heart aims to educate and train bystanders, Doyle stated. Survival chances decrease by 10 percent for each minute that passes before care is administered, Doyle added.
A five-step link has been identified to increase survival rate. Recognize cardiac arrest, administer CPR, rapid defibrillation, advanced life support and integrated post-cardiac arrest care.
In addition to KCH, One Heart is sponsored by Kerlin Ford, Zale Drug, a $3,000 grant from the American Heart Association and a $3,000 grant from the Kosciusko Community Foundation from Operation Round-Up.
K21Health Foundation has also placed 14 AEDs in fire departments, 10 in not-for-profit agencies, 37 in schools and 78 with county police agencies.
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The One Heart Program was developed to help improve the sudden cardiac arrest survival rate in Kosciusko County.
“We’ve found through data collection some areas where we as a community need to improve to increase the survival rate from sudden cardiac arrest,” said Tony Doyle, MTEMS public relations.
The overall goals of One Heart are to: increase the number of bystanders taught CPR to 10 percent of the population, or 5,000 people in Kosciusko County; create an automated external defibrilator, or AED, registry to provide to central dispatch; train dispatchers in most recent dispatcher assisted CPR; continued quality assurance program to study how to improve survival of SCA; and to improve first responder care and response to cardiac arrest.
So far, 1,700 people in the county have learned CPR, and with the help of Kosciusko Community Hospital, high-risk families were also trained.
Nearly 80 percent of cardiac arrests occur in the home, which is why One Heart aims to educate and train bystanders, Doyle stated. Survival chances decrease by 10 percent for each minute that passes before care is administered, Doyle added.
A five-step link has been identified to increase survival rate. Recognize cardiac arrest, administer CPR, rapid defibrillation, advanced life support and integrated post-cardiac arrest care.
In addition to KCH, One Heart is sponsored by Kerlin Ford, Zale Drug, a $3,000 grant from the American Heart Association and a $3,000 grant from the Kosciusko Community Foundation from Operation Round-Up.
K21Health Foundation has also placed 14 AEDs in fire departments, 10 in not-for-profit agencies, 37 in schools and 78 with county police agencies.
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