Hyderabad, March 17, 2025: EMRI Green Health Services (EMRI GHS) organised a two-day inaugural Resuscitation Academy Leadership Workshop at its premises in Devar Yamzal in the city outskirts.

Speaking at the closing on Friday evening, Dr. GV Ramana Rao, Director, Emergency Medicine Learning Centre (EMLC) & Research at EMRI the survival rates of cardiac arrests must be improved. Some countries like Singapore, with consistent efforts, have significantly improved. We must aim at least to improve the cardiac survival rate by 10% in the medium time frame.

To improve cardiac arrest survival rates, we must focus more on early recognition, providing prompt CPR, making rapid defibrillation, making Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) accessible, and advanced care, bystander training, and robust emergency response systems, Dr GV Ramana Rao said.

The workshop was jointly organised by EMRI GHS and Global Resuscitation Alliance, USA Head Office. The workshop was organised with the technical support from UPEC (Unit for Prehospital Emergency Care), Ministry of Health, Singapore and the Laerdal Foundation, USA. The Laerdal Foundation provides financial support to practically oriented research to prevent needless deaths from sudden cardiac arrest, trauma, and during birth.

The workshop discussed Telephone CPR, High Performance CPR, Culture of Accountability, 10 steps towards improving Cardiac Arrest Survival, among many others. The workshop had group discussions and activities. During the workshop, Telephone CPR and High Performance CPR demonstrations were shown for the

The first of its kind, a RA Leadership Workshop was organised to mark the Inauguration of India’s first Resuscitation Academy at Hyderabad. The two-day residential workshop, which began on Thursday concluded on Friday. It brought together over 75 participants from Singapore, the USA, UK, Ghana, and Norway. Attendees include practising doctors from institutions like NIMS and Apollo, government health officials, subject matter experts and other key leaders in the field.

The workshop was designed to support the implementation of the Global Resuscitation Alliance (GRA) 10 Steps, recognized as the gold standard for enhancing cardiac arrest survival rates worldwide. The RAI believes that the effective implementation of these ten steps will help improve Return of Spontaneous Circulation in cardiac arrest cases in target regions in India from 2% to 10% by 2030.

Some of the international faculty who spoke at the workshop include Prof (Dr) Marcus Ong, Director -UPEC; Ms Ann Michelle Doll, Executive Director of Resuscitation Academy Foundation, USA; Prof (Dr) Robert Neumar, University of Michigan, USA; Prof Freddy Lippert, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Dr Ivan Chua, Emergency Physician, Singapore General Hospital and others.

The Senior Management of EMRI GHS and various Government Agencies fully supported the initiative and together made it not only happen but hugely successful.