Behind the Code: Strengthening Our Response to Cardiac Arrest
Teams across Carilion are working together to strengthen our response to cardiac arrest or “Code Blue” through realistic training, standardized equipment and new technology, all focused on one goal: helping more patients survive cardiac arrest and return home to their loved ones.
Check out the video below to find out how.
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We participate in the American Heart Association’s “Get With The Guidelines” program, which allows us to benchmark our Code Blue response against other hospitals, regions, and trauma center peer groups.
Earlier this year, we learned we’re among the top in the nation when the AHA recognized five of our hospitals. We received seven AHA Get With The Guidelines Resuscitation achievement awards for our dedication to best practices, life-saving care and for demonstrating a commitment to following up-to-date, research-based guidelines, helping save lives, support recovery and reduce hospital readmissions.
CFMH earned a silver award while CGCH, CTCH and CRBH each achieved bronze awards for adult resuscitation. In the area of survivability, CRBH and CRMH were recognized for their achievements with adult and pediatric patients, respectively.
Learn more about the hard work and collaboration across teams and hospitals that made this recognition possible in an upcoming article on Inside Carilion.
As a large health system with a Level I trauma center, life-threatening emergencies happen every day.
So we’re prepared, most of us complete annual life support training and test our skills quarterly through Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) sessions.
Now teams across the system are working together to further improve our Code Blue response by adding team dynamics training with realistic resuscitation scenarios, standardizing crash carts, and introducing a new mobile app known as Rover.
