32. The future of out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest
SMACC 2017
Maaret Castrén
Helsinki
Finland
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33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38. “Precision medicine”
• “Most medical treatments have been designed for the
“average patient.” As a result of this “one-size-fits-all-
approach,” treatments can be very successful for some
patients but not for others.
This is changing with the emergence of precision medicine,
an innovative approach to disease prevention and
treatment that takes into account individual differences in
people’s genes, environments, and lifestyles.”
White House website, 30 January 2015
39.
40. • A “culture of excellence” is, by
definition, out of the ordinary.
• A culture of excellence is a choice
to go beyond the ordinary.
41.
42. • If you always do what you’ve always
done, you’ll always get what you
always got
• “We’ve always done it that way”
• “That will never work”
• “Check your ego at the door”
48. 0
15
30
45
60
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Development of VF survival rates
from
2005 to 2014 in Canton Ticino,
Switzerland
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38%
33%
43%
55%
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