Research activities  
An overview of our research policy and activities.
 

National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA)  
The Resuscitation Council (UK) and The Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) are collaborating to develop a nationwide database of cardiac arrests that take place in hospital.   The aim is to enable analysis of all in-hospital cardiac arrests and to compare the frequency of, and outcome from, cardiac arrest between hospitals.
 
Overview of the organisation and status of NCAA.
 

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 early results of the survey.
 
Abstract of the article in "Resuscitation" describing
the design of the universal report form for the survey.
 

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.
 

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 were 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  
Background information
on the National Audit of Paediatric Resuscitation (NAPR) study.
 
 

Studies presented as free papers
   at the 2009 Scientific Symposium
 
A number of free papers were presented at the September 2009
Scientific Symposium, covering various aspects of resuscitation.
To view the abstracts for these papers, please click here.
 
   Selected abstracts accepted for publication here, but not presented
      at the symposium.
 
Abstracts of free papers presented at earlier Scientific Symposia:
  2007 Symposium
  2006 Symposium