West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) is to take part in a ground breaking medical trial funded by the National Institute for Health Research and co-ordinated by the University of Warwick.
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, European Resuscitation Council and Resuscitation Council (UK) which set the current resuscitation guidelines, have identified the urgent need for a clinical trial to determine whether adrenaline therapy for cardiac arrest is safe and effective. The new study will work out once and for all if adrenaline is helpful or harmful as a treatment for cardiac arrest.
Gavin Perkins, Chief Investigator for the Trial explains:
