HEMS Debrief – Cardiac Arrest Focus. #3, Dr Hans van Schuppen (part one) – repost

(Please excuse the re-post, poor editing on my part (Sam’s) means we are re-posting this episode)

Hello, and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief, focus on cardiac arrest.

This is episode 3, and today it is all about ventilation during arrest. It is time to put the P back into CPR. Ventilation has been neglected in cardiac arrest management, and this two part episode focuses on how ventilation can not only help achieve a ROSC but the importance of ventilation too in achieving neurologically intact survival

• We debate 30:2 or continuous ventilation and the merits of LMA vs intubation vs BVM

• We talk about the complexities of heart lung interactions 

• Where the research is heading in understanding how best to ventilate these patients

We are delighted to be joined by an absolute expert in this area, Dr Hans van Schuppen from Holland.

Hans is an anesthesiologist and HEMS physician at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. Hans is a combined researcher, clinician and leader. He is an ERC Advanced Life Support Course Director, co-founder of the ResusNL conference, member of the expert group on national ambulance guidelines on resuscitation and is a member of the jury of the Dutch National Resuscitation Competition. As a member of the Dutch Resuscitation Council, he co-authored the national resuscitation guidelines, and helped to develop and implement a nationwide standard operating procedure for the handover of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients.

Currently, Hans is the chair of the Medical Committee and board member of the Dutch Resuscitation Council. His research evolved into a formal PhD with the ARREST (AmsteRdam REsuscitation STudies) group and the department of Anesthesiology, resulting in his thesis “Prehospital Advanced Life Support”. He now serves as director of resuscitation science of ARREST and works towards close collaboration between clinical care, education, research and innovation in resuscitation.

We could not stop talking to Hans, so please tune back in next week for the second half of our conversation.