Global health and emergency care: a resuscitation research agenda--part 1. Acad Emerg Med 2013 Dec;20(12):1289-96
Date
12/18/2013Pubmed ID
24341584DOI
10.1111/acem.12270Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84890838139 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 30 CitationsAbstract
At the 2013 Academic Emergency Medicine global health consensus conference, a breakout session on a resuscitation research agenda was held. Two articles focusing on cardiac arrest and trauma resuscitation are the result of that discussion. This article describes the burden of disease and outcomes, issues in resuscitation research, and global trends in resuscitation research funding priorities. Globally, cardiovascular disease and trauma cause a high burden of disease that receives a disproportionately smaller research investment. International resuscitation research faces unique ethical challenges. It needs reliable baseline statistics regarding quality of care and outcomes; data linkages between providers; reliable and comparable national databases; and an effective, efficient, and sustainable resuscitation research infrastructure to advance the field. Research in resuscitation in low- and middle-income countries is needed to understand the epidemiology, infrastructure and systems context, level of training needed, and potential for cost-effective care to improve outcomes. Research is needed on low-cost models of population-based research, ways to disseminate information to the developing world, and finding the most cost-effective strategies to improve outcomes.
Author List
Aufderheide TP, Nolan JP, Jacobs IG, van Belle G, Bobrow BJ, Marshall J, Finn J, Becker LB, Bottiger B, Cameron P, Drajer S, Jung JJ, Kloeck W, Koster RW, Huei-Ming Ma M, Shin SD, Sopko G, Taira BR, Timerman S, Eng Hock Ong MAuthor
Tom P. Aufderheide MD Professor in the Emergency Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Biomedical ResearchCardiovascular Diseases
Consensus Development Conferences as Topic
Developing Countries
Emergency Medicine
Global Health
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Poverty
Research
Research Support as Topic
Resuscitation
Wounds and Injuries