1. @matthewjdouma @CtPicard Mixed Methods in Health Services Research
To Improve Human Performance & Patient Outcomes
Matthew J Douma RN
Christopher Picard RN
@matthewjdouma
@CtPicard

2. Disclosures
Affiliations

3. Technology & Life-saving
Goal & Objectives
Goal: Describe what our team does that relates to resuscitation science and cardiac arrest
Hemorrhage Control
Cardiac Arrest
Education
Quality Improvement
Technology & Life-saving

4. Junctional Hemorrhage
Hemorrhage Control
Junctional Hemorrhage
Leading cause
of potentially survivable
traumatic death

5. External Aortic Compression

6. External Aortic Compression

7. Tourniquets
Systematic Review of Tourniquet Devices for patient comfort, speed of application and occlusion rate VS

8. Manual control & wound packing for life-threatening hemorrhage
Stop the Bleed!
Manual control & wound packing for life-threatening hemorrhage

9. Defibrillation Programs
National Survey of
Public Access
Defibrillation Programs
Operational Readiness
Barriers/Areas for Improvement
Training of Providers
Naloxone

10. BLS for High-Frequency Providers
Translates AHA/HSF into local context
Setting specific curriculum
Core cases
4 x year skill re-certs
Feedback devices

11. Patient-Centered Cardiac Arrest Care

12. Family support and follow-up Debriefing to staff/providers
Edmonton Zone ED Cardiac Arrest Care
Quality Improvement Project
Chest compressions
Family support and follow-up
Debriefing to staff/providers
Reduce time reversible causes

13. Hospital Accreditation
In-hospital cardiac arrest care is poor outside specialized settings
Prevention, detection and BLS
MET/RRT & Code Blue minimum standards

14. Randomized X-Over Trial of Chest Compression Effectiveness

15. Randomized X-Over Trial Vasoactive Medication
Preparation & Delivery in Cardiovascular Collapse

16. Canadian Code Blue Records
Environmental Scan of
Canadian Code Blue Records
88 unique records from ED & ICU to identify best practices and core content

17. Alexa vs Siri vs Google vs Cortana
Digital Assistants for First Aid Queries
A Mixed Methods Approach
Alexa vs Siri vs Google vs Cortana

18. Cardiac Arrest Video Registry
800+ videos, 180 verified
Cardiac Arrest Prodrome
Victim Post-Arrest Behavior
Bystander Behavior (Good & Bad)

19. Undergrad students
Non-healthcare professionals
Non-academics
Career Researchers
EMS, nursing, medicine