Thank you for joining us for our discussion on how to code patients well in the community setting. In this blog and podcast interview we touch on some overarching topics of cardiac arrest management, but cater the discussion to issues, obstacles, and dynamics within the community. Our special guest for this post is Dr. Salim Rezaie from R.E.B.E.L EM.

The Two Pillars of Cardiac Arrest

If there is a take home from this post, it is that there are only two things proven to save lives in cardiac arrest (when you look at the literature) and those are:

1) High Quality CPR with minimal delays

(Check out our video on high performance CPR by Dr. Mike Bohanske)

2) Timely Defibrillation