Highlights
The key themes from the 2023 symposium included high quality pre-hospital ALS, ECMO CPR, aftercare and GoodSAM.
SCAS23 attracted a large and enthusiastic audience of resuscitation practitioners, decision makers and thought leaders from emergency services, prehospital medicine, third sector organisations, academics and Scottish Government.
Talks from the day
Introducing the event
Dr Gareth Clegg
Scotland's OHCA Strategy Delivery Group chair. Associate Medical Director Scottish Ambulance Service. Resuscitation Research Group Principal Investigator, University of Edinburgh.
Science of high quality Resus - Paramedic’s ‘ABC’
Michael Bradfield
Director of Clinical and Service Development, Resuscitation Council UK
Getting our SHIFT together!
Steven Short
Programme Lead for OHCA, Scottish Ambulance Service.
The Newton lecture
Professor Paul Gowens
Associate Director Research and Innovation, Scottish Ambulance Service
OCHA in Scotland
Professor Jason Leitch
Clinical Director, Healthcare Quality and Improvement, Scottish Government.
ECPR save life: The Paris experience
Professor Lionel Lamhaut
Program lead for Prehospital ECPR at the University Hospital of Necker-Paris. Associate director at the SAMU de PARIS.
Inequalities - OHCA in context
Dr Jim Ward
Medical Director, Scottish Ambulance Service.
GoodSAM
Donald McPhail
Clinical Effectiveness Lead OHCA, Scottish Ambulance Service
Your SHIFT is well and truly… together
Dr James Cant
Chief Executive Officer RCUK
The Newton Award
Gregor and Judy Newton
Flash Talks
Creating a brief, socially-primed cpr video intervention
Jean Skelton
PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
bystander Pilot Project
Amanda Baird
CHSS Advice Line, Clinical Lead
Saving lives: by the numbers
Benjamin Leung
PhD Student, University of Toronto
EcpR IN SCOTLAND
Dr Louise Hartley
Critical Care Consultant, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
The Pad-sim Study
Dr James Nicholson
Clinical Teaching Fellow, NHS Highland
Honorary Clinical Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Applying behavioural science to enhance call-handler assistance and increase rates of CPR
Dr Barbara Farquharson
