TY - JOUR
T1 - Up to 206 million people reached and over 5.4 million trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation worldwide
T2 - The 2019 international liaison committee on resuscitation world restart a heart initiative
AU - Böttiger, Bernd W.
AU - Lockey, Andrew
AU - Aickin, Richard
AU - Carmona, Maria
AU - Cassan, Pascal
AU - Castrén, Maaret
AU - Chakra Rao, S. S.C.
AU - De Caen, Allan
AU - Escalante, Raffo
AU - Georgiou, Marios
AU - Hoover, Amber
AU - Kern, Karl B.
AU - Khan, Abdul Majeed S.
AU - Levi, Cianna
AU - Lim, Swee H.
AU - Nadkarni, Vinay
AU - Nakagawa, Naomi Kondo
AU - Nation, Kevin
AU - Neumar, Robert W.
AU - Nolan, Jerry P.
AU - Mellin-Olsen, Jannicke
AU - Pagani, Jacopo
AU - Sales, Monica
AU - Semeraro, Federico
AU - Stanton, David
AU - Toporas, Cristina
AU - van Grootven, Heleen
AU - Wang, Tzong Luen
AU - Wijesuriya, Nilmini
AU - Wong, Gillian
AU - Perkins, Gavin D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Drs Böttiger and Perkins are supported by the European Resuscitation Council Research Network. No international funding source is declared. National initiatives may have been supported by local funding to deliver training.
Funding Information:
Dr Böttiger is European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Treasurer and was ERC Board Director Science and Research until 2020; Chairman, German Resuscitation Council (GRC); Founder, German Resuscitation Foundation; Associated Editor, European Journal of Anaesthesiology; Speakers Honorarium from FoMF, Zoll, and Bard; Chairman, GRC; Board Member, German Society of Interdisciplinary Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine; Associated Editor, Resuscitation. Dr Carmona is in charge of the project Kids Save Lives Brazil. Dr Castrén is the Honorary Secretary of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). Dr Hoover is employed by the American Heart Association. Dr Kern is the immediate past Chair of the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee. Dr Khan is Chairman of the National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Committee in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he is in charge of the project Makkah Almukarramah Heart Safe City. Dr Levi is employed by the American Heart Association. Dr Lim is Treasurer of the Resuscitation Council of Asia and Chairman of the Singapore Resuscitation and First Aid Council. Dr Lockey is Vice President of the Resuscitation Council (United Kingdom). Dr Nakagawa is in charge of the project Kids Save Lives Brazil. Dr Nation is employed as Chief Executive by the New Zealand Resuscitation Council. Dr Neumar is ILCOR Co-Chair and has received National Institutes of Health research funding (R34 HL130738, R44 HL091606, K12 HL133304, and R01 HL133129) and industry research support from PhysioControl (equipment support for laboratory and clinical research). Dr Nolan is Chair of the ERC and Editor-in-Chief of Resuscitation. Dr Perkins is Co-Chair of ILCOR and ERC Board Director ILCOR and Guidelines. Dr Sales is employed by the American Heart Association. Dr Semeraro is ILCOR Basic Life Support (BLS) Task Force Member and ERC Science and Education Committee BLS Co-Chair. Dr Toporas is employed by Heart & Stroke Canada. Dr van Grootven is employed by the ERC. Dr Wong is employed by Heart & Stroke Canada. The remaining authors have no disclosures to report.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley.
PY - 2020/8/4
Y1 - 2020/8/4
N2 - Sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in industrialized nations. Many of these lives could be saved if bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates were better. “All citizens of the world can save a life— CHECK—CALL—COMPRESS.” With these words, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation launched the 2019 global “World Restart a Heart” initiative to increase public awareness and improve the rates of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and overall survival for millions of victims of cardiac arrest globally. All participating organizations were asked to train and to report the numbers of people trained and reached. Overall, social media impact and awareness reached up to 206 million people, and >5.4 million people were trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation worldwide in 2019. Tool kits and information packs were circulated to 194 countries worldwide. Our simple and unified global message, “CHECK—CALL— COMPRESS,” will save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide and will further enable many policy makers around the world to take immediate and sustainable action in this most important healthcare issue and initiative.
AB - Sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in industrialized nations. Many of these lives could be saved if bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates were better. “All citizens of the world can save a life— CHECK—CALL—COMPRESS.” With these words, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation launched the 2019 global “World Restart a Heart” initiative to increase public awareness and improve the rates of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and overall survival for millions of victims of cardiac arrest globally. All participating organizations were asked to train and to report the numbers of people trained and reached. Overall, social media impact and awareness reached up to 206 million people, and >5.4 million people were trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation worldwide in 2019. Tool kits and information packs were circulated to 194 countries worldwide. Our simple and unified global message, “CHECK—CALL— COMPRESS,” will save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide and will further enable many policy makers around the world to take immediate and sustainable action in this most important healthcare issue and initiative.
KW - Cardiac arrest
KW - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
KW - International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
KW - Lay resuscitation
KW - “World Restart a Heart”
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U2 - 10.1161/JAHA.120.017230
DO - 10.1161/JAHA.120.017230
M3 - Article
C2 - 32750297
AN - SCOPUS:85089131258
SN - 2047-9980
VL - 9
JO - Journal of the American Heart Association
JF - Journal of the American Heart Association
IS - 15
M1 - e017230
ER -