CARES can make a difference

CARES helps communities measure performance and identify how to improve cardiac arrest survival rates. By joining CARES, communities gain more than just access to information that will help them improve performance and save lives. They also contribute to one of the largest EMS registries in the world, and one of the few that also includes patient outcome information from hospitals. Those features enable CARES data to be used to conduct vital research that furthers our knowledge of cardiac arrest treatment and saves countless lives for years to come.

Benefits of joining CARES

• Join a network of communities working together to increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest
• Compare your community to local, state, and national performance and discover ways to improve your emergency medical system's response to cardiac arrest
• Use simple, HIPAA-compliant, web-based software to link EMS and hospital data, creating a single record for each OHCA event
• Access multiple real-time reporting features, including charts, graphs, and tables for use in reports, presentations, and more
• Receive training and ongoing support from CARES staff to get the most out of participation, including one-on-one consultation to review your community's annual report and comparison to national benchmarks

LATEST NEWS

Surviving cardiac arrest can be followed by lasting psychological, cognitive, and functional challenges, even among people with favorable neurological recovery. A systematic review published in Resuscitation Plus examined six studies involving 352 adult cardiac arrest survivors and found that struct 

A study published in Resuscitation used CARES data to examine whether a year-long hands-only CPR initiative in Los Angeles County translated into changes in bystander CPR. The initiative trained more than 500,000 residents, and while researchers found no significant overall intervention effect, they