Summary
Project Abstract Approximately 350,000 people suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) each year, with an average survival rate with good neurological function of only 9.0%. In response to the clear public health imperative signaled by these statistics, the Institute of Medicine in 2015 called for studies on implementation of interventions for OHCA at the community, emergency medical services (EMS), and hospital levels. The lack of consistent use of effective interventions across the country is largely due to the lack of high quality evidence from randomized trials on how to implement thes