Resuscitation Projects Funded through Strategic Initiatives
Monitoring and Optimizing CPR
This strategic initiative is to build capacity in resuscitation
research in Canada and to support research which will ultimately result in
enhanced quality CPR and improved outcomes in both adult and paediatric
populations. The outcome of this research will also
contribute to the Guidelines for Resuscitation in 2010. For more details on the initiative, please refer to the Request for Applicatons.
One project is funded project through this initiative:
The real time monitoring of ventricular fibrillation dynamics from human
Langendorff model for optimizing resuscitation outcomes.
Principal Investigator: Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy (Toronto General Hospital). Research Profile
Resuscitation and Knowledge Transfer: the Community and Health Care Providers
The goal of this initiative is to build capacity in resuscitation research in
Canada and to fund research that explores how present and proposed policies,
strategies, tools, training approaches, legislation or guidelines relating to
knowledge transfer of resuscitation sciences influence the uptake of knowledge
by lay rescuers and/or first responders. This evidence should lead to the
development of new or improved knowledge transfer policies, mechanisms, or tools
that will help improve survival outcomes from sudden cardiac arrest and
ultimately, reduce disability and death among Canadians. For more details on the initiative, please refer to the Request for Applications.
Two projects are funded in partnership with the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health:
Strategies for post-arrest care: the "SPARC" network project.
Principal Investigators: Morrison, Laurie (St. Michael's Hospital);
Dorian, Paul (St. Michael's Hospital);
Scales, Damon (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre). Research Profile
A survey of attitudes and factors associated with successful CPR knowledge transfer in an older population most likely to witness cardiac arrest.
Principal Investigator: Vaillancourt, Christian (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute) Research Profile
Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC)
The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium is the first large-scale effort to conduct clinical trials in sudden cardiac arrest and severe traumatic injury focusing on interventions by Emergency Medical Services teams in the field, when there is optimal potential for patient benefit. The ultimate objectives are to improve survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest and severe traumatic injury. The Consortium supports ten regional Clinical Centres and one Data and Coordinating Centre in the U.S. and Canada and is much needed infrastructure for the rapid translation of research advances into improved resuscitation outcomes.
The Canadian sites that are part of the Consortium are supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada in partnership with the NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Defence Research and Development Canada, and the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health.
Toronto regional resuscitation research out of hospital network.
Principal Investigators: Slutsky, Arthur;Dorian, Paul; Morrison, Laurie
(St. Michael's Hospital). Research Profile
Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium: BC/Ottawa (Ontario Pre-hospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study].
Principal Investigator: Stiell, Ian (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute).
Research Profile
For more information, please contact:
Ann Nguyen
Information/Project
Coordinator
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
613 569 4361
ext. 268 anguyen@hsf.ca