DALLAS and STAVANGER, Norway, October 16, 2023 — For almost 20 years, the American Heart Association^® (Association) and Laerdal Medical (Laerdal) have collectively developed and introduced resuscitation training, coaching and know-how to the well being care market.  The Association and Laerdal will now broaden their focus past training to creating and nurturing well being care high quality enchancment options to impression a neighborhood “systems of care” method and affect extra constructive affected person outcomes. This World Restart a Heart Day, the organizations are furthering their collaborative relationship and have dedicated to assist save a further 1 million lives by 2030 annually by being a catalyst for bettering entry and the standard of lifesaving emergency techniques of take care of all.  

With a shared mission to assist save extra lives from cardiac arrest, the American Heart Association, the world’s main voluntary group devoted to a world of longer, more healthy lives for all, and Laerdal Medical, one of many world leaders in medical simulation and resuscitation coaching, have co-developed and introduced progressive resuscitation high quality enchancment packages, training and coaching to well being care suppliers for many years. The organizations’ early collaborative merchandise embrace the HeartCode^® portfolio within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, adopted by the CPR Anytime Kit™ and CPR in Schools Training Kit™, debuting in 2004 and 2013, respectively.

Some of their newer introductions embrace the Resuscitation Quality Improvement^® Program (RQI^®) and RQI for NRP^® (Neonatal Resuscitation Program^®), in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“We have decades of shared innovations of which we are very proud, and programs that continue to succeed and flourish to help us realize our commitment to help save an additional 1 million lives by 2030 each year,” mentioned Alf-Christian Dybdahl, Laerdal Medical chief govt officer. “Focusing on the road ahead, our renewed alliance signals our expanded scope of work dedicated to promising current and future projects to improve resuscitation and emergency care outcomes and health care quality and access as a whole.”  

There are a number of methods that can collectively energy the dedication to avoid wasting a million extra lives annually by 2030. Both organizations are collaborating within the World Health Organization’s Acute Care Action Network (ACAN) to strengthen emergency care techniques in low and middle-income nations by coaching and supporting 250,000 nurses and midwives in these nations.

Further supporting this dedication is the newly launched Nation of Lifesavers marketing campaign by the Association calling individuals to change into a part of a motion to assist double survivor charges from sudden cardiac arrest by 2030. Additionally, increasing the RQI program footprint globally and embracing efforts to enhance emergency, crucial and operative take care of common well being protection and safety from well being emergencies will increase the sturdy activations which are serving to drive the Alliance renewal.

Central to the Association and Laerdal Alliance is RQI Partners LLC, the partnership between and repair supplier for resuscitation packages for the organizations. Formed in 2018, the corporate is charged with accelerating adoption of their co-developed digital resuscitation training and coaching by hospitals and well being techniques, emergency medical providers companies and nursing packages at U.S. schools and universities. Since the RQI program launch eight years in the past, greater than 2,400 hospitals and a couple of million nurses globally are utilizing their modernized, digital CPR coaching options. More importantly, it’s estimated that greater than 20,000 lives have been saved.

“Our commitment to resuscitation education and training is unwavering and remains firmly intact,” mentioned John Meiners, American Heart Association chief of mission-aligned companies and well being care options. “Today’s announcement signals a renewed intent to expand our commitment to help save an additional 1 million lives, each year, by 2030. We will continue directing our respective resources, science, education and technology to being a catalyst for dramatically improving access and quality of health care for all. Since 2005, we have leaned into innovation to effect change in health care and challenge the status quo — using the RQI program portfolio as the standard of quality improvement resuscitation care. This will hold true through this recommitment, with the additional focus on challenging standards of care across multidisciplinary health care practices.”

The core tenets that can drive the Association and Laerdal Alliance focus by way of 2030 and gas mission achievement to assist save a further 1 million lives by 2030 annually embrace:

• Helping stop and enhance the response to emergency occasions
• Creating a tradition rooted in high quality enchancment studying inside the emergency care panorama
• Challenging the requirements of care
• Reaching new audiences
• Embracing a world mission and persevering with to help the Global Resuscitation Alliance
• Supporting emergency care analysis
• Directing monetary contributions to the lifesaving mission
• Expanding CPR in Schools

“The World Health Organization has more than 30 million deaths documented annually that are the result of time-critical emergencies.[1] Cardiac arrest ranks among the top in this category. Pairing our co-developed CPR training and education solutions with other evidence-based, well implemented interventions creates the potential for real change and improved access and quality of care,” Dybdahl mentioned.

For further data and to study extra in regards to the Association and Laerdal’s digital resuscitation coaching options, go to the RQI Partners’ website.

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About the American Heart Association

The American Heart Association is a relentless power for a world of longer, more healthy lives. We are devoted to making sure equitable well being in all communities. Through collaboration with quite a few organizations, and powered by tens of millions of volunteers, we fund progressive analysis, advocate for the general public’s well being and share lifesaving assets. The Dallas-based group has been a number one supply of well being data for almost a century. Connect with us on heart.org, Facebook, X or by calling 1-800-AHA-USA1.   

About Laerdal Medical 

Laerdal is devoted to our mission of serving to save lives. Laerdal Medical is a world chief in healthcare training and resuscitation coaching that makes use of immersive applied sciences and data-centric insights to extend survival and enhance healthcare high quality. We empower our heroes/life savers, and healthcare employees, to assist them save extra lives. Improving the standard of care is a part of our mission, to assist save extra lives. And we have now established the aim to assist save a million extra lives. Every 12 months. By 2030. However, we are able to’t do that alone. This is a shared aim of the Laerdal Group. A gaggle of firms that develops healthcare-related options and packages targeted on a typical mission to assist save lives, along with our Partners. The Laerdal Group consists of Laerdal Medical, Laerdal Global Health, Million Lives Fund and Laerdal Foundation. Laerdal is a world firm in 26 nations worldwide with its head workplace positioned in Stavanger, Norway. For extra data, go to www.laerdal.com.

About RQI Partners LLC

RQI Partners LLC, a partnership between the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical, positions the organizations to ship progressive options that speed up the impression of their lifesaving mission. The firm blends the Association’s management in science and resuscitation training with Laerdal’s experience in know-how and implementation to ship impactful and progressive resuscitation high quality enchancment packages. For extra data, go to www.rqipartners.com and comply with us on X and LinkedIn.

For Media Inquiries, contact:

American Heart Association: Sarah D. Williams; 214-706-1156; sarah.d.williams@heart.org

Laerdal Medical: Pål Oftedal; +47 906 126 70; paal.oftedal@laerdal.com

RQI Partners: Stephanie M. Brown; 214-984-0013; stephanie.brown@rqipartners.com