Research

RESEARCH AREAS

1. Out-of-hospital (OHCA): CPR, AED, community-based interventions.

2. Post-OHCA care

3. Quality of bystander CPR

4. Access to AEDs and installation strategies

5. Community response to OHCA

6. ED overcrowding

7. ED frequent flyers

RESEARCH STUDIES

Current/On-going Studies

1. Bystander CPR and survival in six regions of Singapore saturated with trained and equipped volunteers with AED access (including TCPRLink).

2. AED on Wheels: A Pilot Programme to Equip Singapore Taxis with AEDs.

3. Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Care through Empowered Community First Responders: Mobile External Defibrillation Investigation for Cardiac arrest in Singapore (MEDICS).

4. MOH Consolidated Data Repository (MCDR).

5. Optimizing AED placements.

6. National CPR/AED Survey.

7. ACSP Exploratory study.

Completed Studies

1. A prospective randomized controlled trial to explore the effectiveness of a new approach to teaching community CPR+AED: the “RESTART A HEART” programme.

2. Evaluation of CPR and AED skill decline and determination of training interval for a simplified community-based training.

3. Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Singaporeans towards Use of the Automated External Defibrillator (AED).