Case Study
A GPS for Cardiac Arrest:
A GPS for Cardiac Arrest: In Life-or-Death Moments Clinical Apps Save Lives Market Corner Commentary June 5, 2019 By David W. Johnson and Jeff Dunn, Redivus Health2 280,000 The plane is in a nosedive. The sweating pilot is fighting to control the aircraft. A nervous co-pilot is furiously flipping through the flight manual for instructions. What button should they push? What switch should they flip? Was it push or pull on the yoke? How much time do they have? That familiar scene from every airplane disaster movie should be top-of-mind for hospital leaders when they evaluate how their clinical staff responds to Code Blue alarms for cardiac arrest. These are chaotic events in the best circumstances, even worse for clinical teams that rarely experience them. But, they follow predi