Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (Aug 2020)
Up to 206 Million People Reached and Over 5.4 Million Trained in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Worldwide: The 2019 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation World Restart a Heart Initiative
- Bernd W. Böttiger,
- Andrew Lockey,
- Richard Aickin,
- Maria Carmona,
- Pascal Cassan,
- Maaret Castrén,
- SSC Chakra Rao,
- Allan De Caen,
- Raffo Escalante,
- Marios Georgiou,
- Amber Hoover,
- Karl B. Kern,
- Abdul Majeed S. Khan,
- Cianna Levi,
- Swee H. Lim,
- Vinay Nadkarni,
- Naomi Kondo Nakagawa,
- Kevin Nation,
- Robert W. Neumar,
- Jerry P. Nolan,
- Jannicke Mellin‐Olsen,
- Jacopo Pagani,
- Monica Sales,
- Federico Semeraro,
- David Stanton,
- Cristina Toporas,
- Heleen van Grootven,
- Tzong‐Luen Wang,
- Nilmini Wijesuriya,
- Gillian Wong,
- Gavin D. Perkins
Affiliations
- Bernd W. Böttiger
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital of Cologne Germany
- Andrew Lockey
- Emergency Department Calderdale Royal Hospital Halifax United Kingdom
- Richard Aickin
- Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation Melbourne Australia
- Maria Carmona
- Disciplina de Anestesiologia Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
- Pascal Cassan
- Global First Aid Reference Centre International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Paris France
- Maaret Castrén
- Department of Emergency Medicine and Services Helsinki University Hospital and Helsinki University Helsinki Finland
- SSC Chakra Rao
- Chairman of the Indian Resuscitation Council Kakinada India
- Allan De Caen
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Stollery Children’s Hospital Edmonton Canada
- Raffo Escalante
- Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas–Centro de Simulación Clínica Chair InterAmerican Heart Foundation/Emergency Cardiovascular Care Lima Peru
- Marios Georgiou
- American Medical Center Nicosia Cyprus
- Amber Hoover
- ECC Science American Heart Association Dallas TX
- Karl B. Kern
- Division of Cardiology Department of Medicine University of Arizona Tucson AZ
- Abdul Majeed S. Khan
- Clinical Associate Professor Internal Medicine Chairman of the National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Committee Saudi Heart Association Umm Alqura University Mecca Saudi Arabia
- Cianna Levi
- American Heart Association Dallas TX
- Swee H. Lim
- Department of Emergency Medicine and Education Singapore General Hospital Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Duke‐National University of Singapore Medical School National University of Singapore Singapore
- Vinay Nadkarni
- Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care and Pediatrics University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia PA
- Naomi Kondo Nakagawa
- Department of Physical Therapy Communication Science and Speech and Occupational Therapy University of São Paulo Medical School São Paulo Brazil
- Kevin Nation
- New Zealand Resuscitation Council Wellington New Zealand
- Robert W. Neumar
- Department of Emergency Medicine University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor MI
- Jerry P. Nolan
- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit University of Warwick Warwick United Kingdom
- Jannicke Mellin‐Olsen
- World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists London United Kingdom
- Jacopo Pagani
- Chairman of the National Health & Care Committee Italian Red Cross Rome Italy
- Monica Sales
- American Heart Association Dallas TX
- Federico Semeraro
- Department of Anaesthesia Intensive Care and Emergency medical services, Maggiore Hospital Bologna Italy
- David Stanton
- Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa Clinical Leadership Netcare 911 Johannesburg South Africa
- Cristina Toporas
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Toronto ON Canada
- Heleen van Grootven
- European Resuscitation Council and International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Niel Belgium
- Tzong‐Luen Wang
- Resuscitation Council of Asia National Resuscitation Council of Taiwan Chang Bing Show Chwang Memorial Hospital Lukang Township Taiwan
- Nilmini Wijesuriya
- Department of Anaesthesiology College of Anaesthesiologists and Intensivists of Sri Lanka Colombo North Teaching Hospital Colombo Sri Lanka
- Gillian Wong
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Vancouver British Columbia Canada
- Gavin D. Perkins
- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and University Hospitals Birmingham National Health Service Foundation Trust University of Warwick Coventry United Kingdom
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.017230
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 15
Abstract
Abstract 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.
Keywords
- “World Restart a Heart”
- cardiac arrest
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
- lay resuscitation
