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    Research activities  
    An overview of our research policy and activities.

    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.

    National Audit of Paediatric Resuscitation  
    Overview and registration form
    for the National Audit of Paediatric Resuscitation (NAPR) study.
     
    Status update information for the NAPR study,
    as presented at the 2006 ERC Scientific Congress.
     

    Studies presented as free papers
       at the 2007 Scientific Symposium

     
    A number of free papers were presented at the November 2007
    Scientific Symposium, covering various aspects of resuscitation.
    To view the abstracts for these papers, please click here.

 
 
 
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