EMRI Green Health Services (EMRI GHS) hosted a two-day Resuscitation Academy Leadership Workshop at its premises in Devar Yamzal on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The workshop, organised in collaboration with the Global Resuscitation Alliance (GRA), USA, concluded on Friday.
Dr GV Ramana Rao, Director, Emergency Medicine Learning Centre (EMLC) & Research at EMRI, highlighted the need to improve cardiac arrest survival rates in India. “Some countries like Singapore, with consistent efforts, have significantly improved. We must aim at least to improve the cardiac survival rate by 10 per cent in the medium time frame,” he said.
Dr Ramana Rao outlined key measures to improve cardiac arrest survival rates, including early recognition, prompt CPR, rapid defibrillation, accessibility of Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs), bystander training, advanced care, and robust emergency response systems.
The workshop was jointly organised by EMRI GHS and GRA, with technical support from the Unit for Prehospital Emergency Care (UPEC), Ministry of Health, Singapore, and the Laerdal Foundation, USA. The Laerdal Foundation provides financial support for research focused on preventing deaths from sudden cardiac arrest, trauma, and birth-related complications.
Sessions covered various topics, including Telephone CPR, High-Performance CPR, Culture of Accountability, and the ten steps to improving cardiac arrest survival. The workshop also featured group discussions, activities, and practical demonstrations of Telephone CPR and High-Performance CPR.
The event marked the inauguration of India’s first Resuscitation Academy in Hyderabad. The two-day residential workshop brought together over 75 participants from Singapore, the USA, the UK, Ghana, and Norway. Attendees included practising doctors from institutions such as NIMS and Apollo, government health officials, subject matter experts, and key leaders in the field.
The workshop was structured to support the implementation of the Global Resuscitation Alliance’s ten-step framework, recognised as the global standard for improving cardiac arrest survival rates. The academy aims to increase the Return of Spontaneous Circulation in cardiac arrest cases in target regions in India from 2 per cent to 10 per cent by 2030.
International faculty at the workshop included Prof Marcus Ong, Director, UPEC; Ann Michelle Doll, Executive Director of the Resuscitation Academy Foundation, USA; Prof Robert Neumar, University of Michigan, USA; Prof Freddy Lippert, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; and Dr Ivan Chua, Emergency Physician, Singapore General Hospital.
