The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium

Publications

A Trial of an Impedance Threshold
Device in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
New England Journal of Medicine | September 1, 2011
"The impedance threshold device (ITD) is designed to enhance venous return and cardiac output during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by increasing the degree of negative intrathoracic pressure. Previous studies have suggested that the use of an ITD during CPR may improve survival rates after cardiac arrest."

Early versus Later Rhythm Analysis in Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
New England Journal of Medicine | September 1, 2011
"In a departure from the previous strategy of immediate defibrillation, the 2005 resuscitation guidelines from the American Heart Association-International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation suggested that emergency medical service (EMS) personnel could provide 2 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before the first analysis of cardiac rhythm. We compared the strategy of a brief period of CPR with early analysis of rhythm with the strategy of a longer period of CPR with delayed analysis of rhythm."

Out-of-hospital Hypertonic Resuscitation After Traumatic Hypovolemic Shock:
A Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial
Annals of Surgery | March 2011
"Hypertonic fluids have potential benefit in the resuscitation of severely injured patients because of rapid restoration of tissue perfusion, with a smaller volume, and modulation of the inflammatory response, to reduce subsequent organ injury."

Out-of-Hospital Hypertonic Resuscitation Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Journal of the American Medical Association | October 6, 2010
"Hypertonic fluids restore cerebral perfusion with reduced cerebral edema and modulate inflammatory response to reduce subsequent neuronal injury and thus have potential benefit in resuscitation of patients with traumatic brain injury."