The 2015 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on Cardiac Arrest[1] and 2013 AHA consensus on CPR Quality[2] recognized that there is considerable variation in the in-hospital cardiac arrest treatment and care delivery across hospitals. Thus, the IOM recommends creating Cardiac Arrest Centers of Excellence to improve survival and recovery of patients. With this, it is essential that we build future clinical studies upon a foundation of understanding the implementation and effectiveness of existing therapies and guidelines, with generation of data streams to inform evidence-based practices. Specific collaborative quality improvement strategies for cardiac arrest include measuring processes and outcomes associated with resuscitation, benchmarking performance against best practices and data from comparable systems, and providing feedback to providers and teams.[3]

     Catalyzed by initial startup funding from the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine, followed by unrestricted research grant funding from ZOLL Medical, and matching grants targeted to sustain a fiscally independent and sustainable pediRES-Q collaborative, our work continues in building and strengthening the pediRES-Q collaborative clinical learning laboratory network. Since inception in 2015, pediRES-Q now consists of over 60 sites of diverse size, geographic location, and academic support with CHOP as the clinical, data, and program coordinating center. Incredibly, we have collected robust data for identification of risk, pre-arrest training, intra-arrest performance and feedback, post-arrest feedback, post-cardiac arrest care, discharge and neurologic outcome data from approximately 3,000 pediatric cardiac arrest events. With our dedicated and passionate pediRE-Q collaborators, we continually strive to discover, measure, analyze, publish, implement, and disseminate real pediatric arrest data to inform current and future evidence-based resuscitation guidelines that will save more lives and improve quality of life for children - and their families.  ​