Tracks: Advanced Clinical Practice
Current treatments and strategies for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have hit an impenetrable wall, leaving the true survival for all cases in single digits in many emergency response systems. Dr. Joseph Ornato will present several breakthrough strategies and technologies that are on the horizon with the high potential to dramatically reduce unwitnessed events; speed EMS dispatch; enhance bystander CPR rates and early bystander AED application; and enhance short-and long-term survival with critical organ protection. Dr. Ornato, a leading cardiologist and EMS medical director and one of the world's leading researchers in the field will present a detailed roadmap of what is in store for resuscitation in the near future. It is a session you will not want to miss!