News
October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month: See NBC's Tom Brokaw deliver the Public Service Announcement.
Moment of Death: Dr. Lance Becker and Dr. Benjamin Abella discuss post-resuscitation care and therapeutic hypothermia on the National Geographic
Click here for more information on Hands Only CPR
Meet Bill Clinton's travel doctor, a HUP emergency medicine physisician: CRS/Emergency Medicine faculty member Dr. Roger Band shares his experiences traveling with Bill Clinton as the former president's personal physician. Philly News (philly.com) March 24, 2008
Back from the Dead: Doctors are reinventing how they treat sudden cardiac arrest, which is fatal 95 percent of the time. A report from the border between life and death. Newsweek July 15, 2007
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The University of Pennsylvania Department of Emergency Medicine's Center for Resuscitation Science is dedicated to research and training that will save lives of people who suffer cardiac arrest and shock.
To accomplish this mission, we have brought together a diverse team of scientists, clinicians, and engineers focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of death and reanimation in an environment designed to catalyze translation of new discoveries into optimized patient care.
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The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, in collaboration with the Center for Resuscitation Science, will hold its first-ever Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Cutting-edge medical education on sudden cardiac arrest will be provided by leaders in the field and there will also be ample opportunity for SCA survivors to meet and network with one another. Click below for more information.
