| | The NIH through NHLBI has funded a multi-institutional North American clinical collaboration directed at investigating and improving outcomes after cardiac arrest and severe traumatic injury. This grant is in response to the clinical agenda set by the NIH and is a direct result of the PULSE initiative (Post Resuscitative and Initial Utility of Life Saving Efforts). Ten sites through the continental US and Canada have been chosen to perform large, adequately powered, pre-hospital clinical trials in patients sustaining either cardiac arrest or severe trauma. This investigative group, known as the ROC (Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium), will attempt to perform two major interventional clinical trials per year; one in cardiac arrest and one in trauma. The goal of these studies is to improve survival after cardiac arrest and trauma. This NIH initiative is funded through July 2009. |
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