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(Circulation. 2001;103:1182.)
© 2001 American Heart Association, Inc.

Workshop Executive Summary Report: Post-Resuscitative and Initial Utility in Life Saving Efforts (PULSE)

June 29–30, 2000; Lansdowne Resort and Conference Center; Leesburg, Va

Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD; Lance Becker, MD; Thomas Budinger, MD, PhD; Karl Kern, MD; Graham Nichol, MD; Ishaiahu Shechter, PhD; Richard Traystman, PhD; Herbert Wiedemann, MD; Robert Wise, MD; Myron Weisfeldt, MD; George Sopko, MD, MPH

From the Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Palm Springs, Calif (M.H.W.); the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill (L.B.); University of California, Berkeley, Calif (T.B.); University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz (K.K.); University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (G.N.); Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Md (I.S.); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md (R.T., R.W.); the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio (H.W.); Columbia University, New York, NY (M.W.); and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md (G.S.).

Correspondence to Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD, President, The Institute of Critical Care Medicine, 1695 North Sunrise Way, Bldg #3, Palm Springs, CA 92262-5309. E-mail weilm@aol.com

The Post-Resuscitative and Initial Utility in Life Saving Efforts (PULSE) workshop was convened in recognition of the estimated loss of >1000 useful lives each day in the United States as a result of poor cardiopulmonary and trauma resuscitation outcomes. The purpose of the workshop was to provide an interdisciplinary forum on promising and novel life-saving therapies in settings of cardiac, hypoxemic, and traumatic arrest and to identify the most promising new directions in cardiopulmonary and trauma resuscitation research. It was organized under a multiagency initiative supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health, together with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), each within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD). The workshop, which was held in the Lansdowne Conference Center in Leesburg, Virginia from June 29 to 30, 2000, provided the unique opportunity to convene domestic and international experts to chart a new course for future resuscitation research.

Optimism That Many More Lives Can Be Saved

Conference participants believed that the world stands at the verge of new therapies and technologies that could save thousands of lives that are currently lost after traumatic injury and circulatory or hypoxemic arrest. Two broad strategies should be aggressively pursued. First, existing therapies known to restore circulation, shorten the period of ischemia, and save lives should be refined to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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