The University of Pittsburgh Post-Cardiac Arrest Service (PCAS) is a multidisciplinary group of clinicians and researchers from the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, Cardiology, Radiology, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation dedicated to improving care and outcomes for patients who survive cardiac arrest. Founded in 2007 at UPMC Presbyterian, PCAS provides initial resuscitation, in-hospital care, and long-term follow-up to over 400 patients each year. Patients treated by PCAS demonstrate the best survival and long-term outcomes in the region.
Our mission is to optimize outcomes for current and future cardiac arrest patients and their families, locally and around the world, by educating providers and the public and transforming resuscitation science.
Our vision is to improve outcomes for patients with cardiac arrest by discovering, delivering, and disseminating the best possible care.
The Post-Cardiac Arrest Service is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to improving care and outcomes for patients who survive CPR.
The SPARC trial is trying to find out whether patients who are immediately transferred to a specialty hospital after cardiac arrest recover better than those who are cared for at the nearest capable hospital.