Welcome to the National Registry of CardioPulmonary Resuscitation!
The National Registry of CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (NRCPR®) is an international
database of in-hospital resuscitation events sponsored by the American Heart Association
and managed by Digital Innovation, Inc. Initiated in 2000, the NRCPR® is the only
national registry of in-hospital resuscitation events, with over 120,000 resuscitation
events.
NRCPR Mission
The Mission of the American Heart Association's NRCPR Hospital Safety Program is
to reduce disability and death from cardiac and respiratory emergencies by providing
an evidence-based, quality improvement program of patient safety, medical emergency
team response, effective resuscitation, and post-emergency care.
NRCPR Vision
By 2010, NRCPR will be recognized as the premier evidence-based hospital safety
program.
According to a report in the February 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest
is worse during nights and weekends. This important research used data from the American Heart Association's NRCPR.
This observational study evaluated data from 507 participating hospitals between January 1, 2000 and February 1, 2007 which included 58,593
cardiac arrests during day/evening hours and 28,155 cardiac arrests during night hours. Survival to discharge was significantly lower for
cardiac arrests at night (14.7 percent) compared to day/evening (19.8 percent).