Saving lives is the central objective in the field of medicine. In a large, multi-building medical facility in Japan, a patient experienced cardiopulmonary arrest in the treatment room and was treated successfully. However, this event led the HCPs there to conduct a study to assess and improve the emergency response at their hospital.

Read on to know how they improved the response time! A study conducted at the Emergency Medical Center of Gunma University Hospital in Japan has demonstrated that simulation training along with identification of features of the facility, studying the phases of emergency response, and upgrading the emergency response system improved the arrival time of the medical emergency team (MET) to the emergency site by five minutes when compared to the previous test (about seven minutes) conducted in 2017. In 2017, a simulation training with lectures and practice…