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Carberry, James, Couper, Keith and Yeung, Joyce (2017) The implementation of cardiac arrest treatment recommendations in English acute NHS trusts : a national survey. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 93 (1105). pp. 653-659. doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2016-134732 ISSN 0032-5473.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2016-134732
Abstract
Purpose of the study: There are approximately 35 000 in-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK each year. Successful resuscitation requires integration of the medical science, training and education of clinicians and implementation of best practice in the clinical setting. In 2015, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) published its latest resuscitation treatment recommendations. It is currently unknown the extent to which these treatment recommendations have been successfully implemented in practice in English NHS acute hospital trusts.
Methods: We conducted an electronic survey of English acute NHS trusts to assess the implementation of key ILCOR resuscitation treatment recommendations in relation to in-hospital cardiac arrest practice at English NHS acute hospital trusts.
Results: Of 137 eligible trusts, 73 responded to the survey (response rate 53.3%). The survey identified significant variation in the implementation of ILCOR recommendations. In particular, the use of waveform capnography (n=33, 45.2%) and ultrasound (n=29, 39.7%) was often reported to be available only in specialist areas. Post-resuscitation debriefing occurs following every in-hospital cardiac arrest in few trusts (5.5%, n=4), despite a strong ILCOR recommendation. In contrast, participation in a range of quality improvement strategies such as the National Cardiac Arrest Audit (90.4%, n=66) and resuscitation equipment provision/audit (91.8%, n=67) were high. Financial restrictions were identified by 65.8% (n=48) as the main barrier to guideline implementation.
Conclusion: Our survey found that ILCOR treatment recommendations had not been fully implemented in most English NHS acute hospital trusts. Further work is required to better understand barriers to implementation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cardiac arrest -- Treatment -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Postgraduate Medical Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | BMJ | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0032-5473 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | November 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 93 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1105 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 653-659 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1136/postgradmedj-2016-134732 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 May 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 May 2017 | ||||||||
| Funder: | National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR) |
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