Approximately 350,000 adults per year in the US experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Only about 10% of such patients survive their initial hospitalization. The key drivers of successful resuscitation from OHCA are bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and public use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).

Survival rates from OHCA vary dramatically between US regions. For instance, the extracorporeal CPR (eCPR) program at the University of Minnesota has over a 40% survival rate in patients with OHCA and refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF) based on data published in the ARREST trial.

In this episode, we are joined by experts from the University of Minnesota, including Dr. Jason Bartos, Interventional and Critical Care Faculty, and Dr. Julie Power, Chief Fellow at University of Minnesota, and CardioNerds Academy Fellow, along with Dr. Yoav Karpenshif, University of Pennsylvania, and CardioNerds Co-Founders, Drs. Amit Goyal and Dan Ambinder, to discuss cardiac arrest, E-CPR, & post-arrest care. This includes targeted temperature management, coronary angiography, and revascularization, as well as the growing field of eCPR and VA ECMO.