Resuscitation Health Equity
AHA Virtual Town Hall Webinars
The AHA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) volunteer taskforce presented four webinars that featured experts who explored and discussed both disparities and inequities in various aspects of resuscitation care. The DEI taskforce is part of the AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science Subcommittee. Below are the webinar recordings and summaries of each speaker’s presentation.
Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
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Shared Challenges in Rural and Global Resuscitation
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Summaries Available Soon
The AHA is grateful for the support of the following organizations that collaborated with us on the webinars:
A Toolkit for Engaging Communities
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Bystander CPR for Witnessed Cardiac Arrest
In Oct. 2022, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article titled, “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Bystander CPR for Witnessed Cardiac Arrest .(link opens in new window)” Learn more about the paper’s findings in a podcast episode(link opens in new window) that covers racial differences in the delivery of CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which is presented by EM:RAP (Emergency Medicine: Reviews and Perspectives).