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The Arlington Emergency Medical Services System (AEMSS) is comprised of the Arlington Fire
Department and American Medical Response (AMR).

45%
of all
persons
with cardiac
arrest
meeting the
Utstein
Survival
Criteria

As part of the Fire Department's concentration on CPR refinement, one of the
measures identified in the FY2012 Annual Report was updated to align with
recommendations of the American Heart Association. A critical
implementation was to get 9-1-1 callers reporting cardiac arrests to begin
CPR prior to AEMSS arrival.

The Utstein Survival Criteria KPIs are listed below:
Elapsed time from when a call for service is received by the Arlington 9-1-1
Communication center until the first AEMSS unit arrives at the patient.
The percent of cardiac arrests meeting the Utstein Survival criteria.

SURVIVED

New Measure: Updated from FY2012 AEMSS time at patient to AEMSS
CPR Time to the new metric in FY2013 of 9-1-1 Dispatch Initiate Time to
First CPR Compression time by either AEMSS or a Bystander.

in FY2013.

FY2012 Through FY2013 Utstein Survival Criteria KPIs.
(MM:SS Format)

07:12
06:29

Elapsed time
from 9-1-1
Call Initiated
to AEMSS At
Patient Side

06:43

05:46

06:04

05:47

05:02

05:10

04:19
03:36

Elapsed time
from 9-1-1
Initiate Time
to First CPR
Compressio
n By Either
AEMSS Or
Bystander

02:53
02:10
01:26

00:43
00:00
FY2012

DUTY
DUTY

Key components
of the Utstein
Survival Criteria
include:
A cardiac arrest is
witnessed
Cardiac cause
An initial heart
arrhythmia of
Ventricular
Tachycardia or
Ventricular
Fibrillation
Discharge from
the hospital or
transfer to another
facility.

FY2013

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