Cochrane review of adrenaline
Aus-ROC Director Professor Judith Finn has led the Cochrane Review of Adrenaline for cardiac arrest. The review concluded: ..”that standard-dose adrenaline compared to placebo improves return of spontaneous circulation, survival to hospital admission and survival to hospital discharge, but low-quality evidence that it did not affect survival with a favourable neurological outcome”.
The full review is available here.
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Aus-ROC paper will enable regions to reduce OHCA risk and improve bystander response
We are pleased to see so much media interest in our latest paper: Identifying areas of Australia with high out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and low bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates.
This research was funded by the Heart Foundation.
Grant success! Aus-ROC BLS NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence
Aus-ROC investigators are delighted to have received funding from the NHMRC for an Aus-ROC Centre of Research Excellence (#2035259) aiming to optimise the emergency response to save lives. We aim to investigate a comprehensive solution to improve bystander and EMS response to OHCA. We will investigate innovative health strategies, including cutting-edge technology, to enhance the efficacy and sophistication of the emergency response for OHCA.
