News
- Freezing the Heart to Save the Life: See the recent Popular Science article profiling the work of the Dr. Lance Becker, Dr. Benjamin Abella, and the Center for Resuscitation Science.
- October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month: See NBC's Tom Brokaw deliver the Public Service Announcement.
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Moment of Death: Dr. Lance Becker and Dr. Benjamin Abella discuss post-resuscitation care and therapeutic hypothermia on the National Geographic Channel.
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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.
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Teach more Americans CPR, heart group urges.
Only 15 to 30 percent of those who need it get help from bystanders. CRS clinical research director Dr. Benjamin Abella talks about the importance of quality bystander CPR. MSNBC.com January 15, 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.
- To Treat the Dead: The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks - and death itself. Newsweek May 7, 2007.
- The New Science of Saving Lives: Nationally Renowned Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Specialist Lance Becker, MD, Named Director of Penn’s Center for Resuscitation Science; Extending Resuscitation Window and Rapid Cooling Focus of Work. April 2, 2007.
“...dedicated to research and training that will save lives from sudden death.”