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Not Who, but Rather How: The Ideal Resuscitation Team Leader
There are approximately 292,000 adult in-hospital cardiac arrests in the United States annually, and survival rates remain low.1 Team leadership skills have been identified as a key area of focus for improving cardiac arrest outcomes, but these same guidelines do not define who the team leader should be.2,3 In current practice, the code team leader is often the health care professional with the most credentials, but outcomes based on this tradition had not been studied previously. In this issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, Hejjaji et al4 report their study on the survival outcomes of adult patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) across hospital groups based on the credentials of the resuscitation team leader.A Helping Hand
As hospitals around the country and the world fill with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, the workers within them are growing weary. Resources are scarce, personal protective equipment limited, beds full, and tempers frayed. Fatigue is etched on the faces of our colleagues and laced in the voices of our friends. Our communities go into lockdown, and the number of COVID-19 patients drops for a while. Then human nature kicks in and people rebel against the constraints, and cases begin to rise again.
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