ERRC Project Highlights Problem Sudden death occurs when the flow of blood to vital organs of the body quickly and unexpectedly stops due to cardiac arrest. Emergency rescuers currently have only four minutes to resuscitate these patients before it is too late to save the heart and brain.
Cardiac arrest remains one of the leading causes of death in the world.
Current therapies used for over thirty years focus only on restoring blood flow quickly and have done little to improve survival. The newest science reveals a surprise - more cells die in the first minutes after blood flow is returned than die during the time that blood flow is stopped . We believe there is hope for a better method to resuscitate cells that in turn will save the lives of thousands of human beings. Hope ERRC scientists believe that it is more than wishful thinking to break the four-minute time barrier for successful resuscitation. Great things are possible when scientists work together on a common problem.