3rd ArRC Scientific Conference 2025 Recommendations
Recommendations:
- Build integrated Arab systems of survival that connect communities, emergency medical services, emergency departments, hospitals, and advanced care centers through coordinated, patient-centered systems of care.
- Strengthen community resuscitation by expanding high-quality CPR and AED education and training for the public, students, and other priority community groups, with emphasis on early recognition, early CPR, and rapid defibrillation.
- Expand Public Access Defibrillation programs and establish national AED registries, with mechanisms for accurate location, accessibility, maintenance, and integration with emergency dispatch and EMS systems.
- Develop standardized national and regional cardiac arrest registries to measure resuscitation performance, survival and patient-centered outcomes, identify gaps and inequities, and guide continuous quality improvement.
- Advance structured pathways for refractory cardiac arrest, including ECPR and ECMO, in designated centers with appropriate expertise, infrastructure, governance, and evidence-based patient-selection criteria.
- Promote the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies for early recognition, clinical decision support, education, simulation, and quality improvement, while safeguarding patient safety, privacy, transparency, accountability, and ethical governance.
- Strengthen Arab resuscitation research through multicenter and multinational research networks, shared priorities, appropriate data standards, and collaborative studies addressing the needs and disparities of the region.
- Improve the quality and reliability of in-hospital resuscitation through continuous competency-based training, simulation, structured case review, multidisciplinary debriefing, and systematic measurement of performance and outcomes.
- Promote sustained Arab, regional, and international collaboration among resuscitation councils, healthcare and academic institutions, EMS systems, professional organizations, and regulatory authorities to translate scientific recommendations into coordinated, measurable, and sustainable action.
- Strengthen integrated post-resuscitation care following ROSC, including cardiovascular and neurological care, critical care, rehabilitation, psychological and social support where appropriate, and long-term assessment of functional outcomes and quality of life.