The organization has planed to implement a large-scale trial to evaluate the survival and neurological outcome, in addition to the hospital discharge factor. Dr. Tom P. Aufderheide, professor of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin has been elected to be the principal investigator for the study.
A sum of $1.5 million would be sanctioned for the Medical College to cover training costs and improve local infrastructure facilities. If the new treatment strategy were found to be safe and efficient, the silent prayers of numerous cardiac arrest patients would be answered soon.