ACUTE initiative  
The Acute Care Undergraduate TEaching (ACUTE) initiative
is a project aiming to develop recommendations for a
national curriculum for medical students promoting teaching
in the provision of safe care for acutely ill patients.
 
For more details, please click here.

National database of AED use  
The Resuscitation Council (UK) is co-ordinating a national survey
of the use of AEDs in the community by first responders and other lay persons.
 
Overview of the AED survey.
 
Abstract of the article in "Resuscitation" describing the design of the universal report form for the survey.

In-hospital cardiac arrest study  
The Resuscitation Council (UK) supported a study into in-hospital
cardiac arrests covering a six-month period during 1997.
 
The results of this study have now been published in the journal "Resuscitation" Volume 47 No. 2, October 2000, pages 125-135.
The paper is titled "Outcome after cardiac arrest in adults in UK hospitals: effect of the 1997 guidelines", authors Carl L Gwinnutt et al.
 
The abstract of the paper is reproduced here.
 
"Resuscitation" is the official journal of the European Resuscitation Council, published by Elsevier Science. Links to the websites of these organisations appear on our links page.