First Aus-ROC PhD student completion!
Last month Dr Kylie Dyson was the first Aus-ROC PhD student to complete her PhD. Her thesis entitled, “Paramedic exposure to cardiac arrest and patient survival: does practice make perfect?”, passed without changes.
This research found that individual paramedics rarely treat cardiac arrest and increasing exposure is associated with improved patient survival. Also, paramedic exposure to a single complex procedure, endotracheal intubation, was associated with improved performance. These findings suggest that paramedic exposure to cardiac arrest and resuscitation procedures need to be monitored and strategies to supplement low exposure, such as simulation training, should be explored.
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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 investigators are delighted to have received funding from the Heart Foundation of Australia to use world-first statistical simulations to predict where changes to modifiable factors (e.g. increased rates of bystander CPT and AEDs) will lead to the greatest improvement in OHCA survival. Project outcomes will include a national implementation strategy, which will inform and direct future interventions as to what will have the greatest potential to increase survival in every Australian LGA.
