Welcome to Every Second Counts. Every Action Matters. The Medtronic Foundation is pleased to provide you with this planning guide to help in efforts to increase sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survival rates.
To really improve SCA survival within a community, the three levels of response – bystander, (emergency response) prehospital and hospital, must be connected and coordinated efforts.
The planning guide was written by experts at The Ohio State University Medical Center, and reviewed by the HeartRescue Partners. This planning guide will help healthcare professionals and community leaders implement best practices at each level of response, and will help them develop procedures for collecting data and measuring performance.
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