Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Understanding the Public Health Burden of Cardiac Arrest: The Need for National Surveillance; 5 3 The Public Experience with Cardiac Arrest; 6 4 Emergency Medical Services Response to Cardiac Arrest; 7 5 In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Post-Arrest Care; 8 6 Resuscitation Research and Continuous Quality Improvement; 9 7 Recommendations and Key Opportunities; 10 A-- Acronyms; 11 B-- Meeting Agendas; 12 C-- Committee Biographies; 13 D-- Selected Results from Commissioned Analyses; 14 E-- Map of U.S. States with CPR Training as a High School Graduation Requirement; 15 F-- Utstein Guideline - Endorsed Data Elementsfor Reporting Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest