Every five years, the American Heart Association updates its CPR guidelines. Two UA faculty members contributed to the development of the recently released 2015 Guidelines for CPR & ECC: Bentley Bobrow, MD, professor of emergency medicine and co-director of the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center – Phoenix (AEMRC), coauthored Part 5: Adult Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality, and Karl Kern, MD, professor of medicine and co-director of the Sarver Heart Center, was a coauthor of Part 8: Post–Cardiac Arrest Care.
Dr. Bobrow, as well as others in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the College of Medicine, have been making significant impacts on out-of-hospital resuscitation and cardiac-arrest care for years. Most recently, their research has been found to improve patient outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims; they have contributed to the Institute of Medicine report that focuses on how to save more lives from cardiac arrest in the U.S.; and they have shown that life-saving CPR instructions to 9-1-1 callers prior to first responders arriving on scene dramatically increases survival from cardiac arrest.