Post-Cardiac Arrest Care

The Post-Cardiac Arrest Service (PCAS) maintains an active research portfolio to ask and answer important questions in post-arrest care. 

Randomized, controlled clinical trials are the gold standard for advancing medical knowledge. To advance our vision of improving outcomes for patients with cardiac arrest throughout the world by discovering, delivering, and disseminating the best possible care, PCAS leads and participates in many clinical trials that aim to discover the best treatments for cardiac arrest and post-arrest care. PCAS has leveraged its local research infrastructure and expertise to lead or contribute to multiple clinical trials conducted through the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC), the Strategies to Innovate EmeRgENcy Care Clinical Trials Network (SIREN), and other local, national, and international research collaborations.  

Not all questions in medicine are answered best with clinical trials. PCAS maintains a busy portfolio of observational research, answering pressing clinical questions and developing methodologies that can be used by others, focused principally on individualizing early resuscitation, advancing the science of prognostication, improving recovery after hospitalization, and optimizing systems of post-arrest care.