Why the study?
Survivors of sudden cardiac arrest face long-term physical, cognitive, and emotional effects, but systematic recommendations lack guidance on partnerships needed to care for patients and caregivers after stabilization.
This AHA scientific statement highlights the need to expand cardiac arrest care systems to include long-term rehabilitative partnerships for survivors and caregivers.
Mandates inclusion of long-term rehabilitative partnerships in cardiac arrest systems for survivors and caregivers; extends resuscitation frameworks beyond the acute phase.
Cardiac arrest systems of care are successfully coordinating community, emergency medical services, and hospital efforts to improve the process of care for patients who have had a cardiac arrest. As a result, the number of people surviving sudden cardiac arrest is increasing. However, physical, cognitive, and emotional effects of surviving cardiac arrest may linger for months or years. Systematic recommendations stop short of addressing partnerships needed to care for patients and caregivers after medical stabilization. This document expands the cardiac arrest resuscitation system of care to include patients, caregivers, and rehabilitative healthcare partnerships, which are central to cardiac arrest survivorship.
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