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Ventricular Tachycardia

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Improving Time To Defibrillation At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Sairamya Bodempudi, Md, Lisa Wus, Dnp, Rn, Crnp, Pccn-Cmc, Juergen Kloo, Md, Patrick Zeniecki, Ma, Frances Mae West, Md, Yair Lev, Md May 2021

Improving Time To Defibrillation At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Sairamya Bodempudi, Md, Lisa Wus, Dnp, Rn, Crnp, Pccn-Cmc, Juergen Kloo, Md, Patrick Zeniecki, Ma, Frances Mae West, Md, Yair Lev, Md

Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit

Aims for Improvement

  • Increase in timely defibrillation by 30% over 1 year
  • Decrease in the amount of Vfib/VTach cardiac arrests that are not defibrillated to <1% within a 1 year time frame


Time To Defibrillation After Onset Of Ventricular Fibrillation And Ventricular Tachycardia Cardiac Arrest At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital And Jefferson Hospital For Neurosciences., Sairamya Bodempudi, Md, Yair Lev, Md May 2020

Time To Defibrillation After Onset Of Ventricular Fibrillation And Ventricular Tachycardia Cardiac Arrest At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital And Jefferson Hospital For Neurosciences., Sairamya Bodempudi, Md, Yair Lev, Md

Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit

Aims for Improvement

  • Improve average time to defibrillation after VFib/pVTach cardiac arrest to < 2 minutes within an 8 month interval at TJUH and JHN.
  • Improve the percent of VFib/pVTach cardiac arrests that are defibrillated within the recommended 2 minute interval by 30% at TJUH/JHN within an 8 month interval