The Reassessment Campaign on Veterinary Resuscitation offers the first evidence-based recommendations to resuscitate dogs and cats in cardiac arrest.
With no guidelines on how best to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on pets, only 6 percent of dogs and cats that suffer cardiac arrests in the hospital survive to go home. Now the Reassessment Campaign on Veterinary Resuscitation, or RECOVER, offers the first evidence-based recommendations to resuscitate dogs and cats in cardiac arrest. RECOVER aims to standardize treatment of cardiac arrest in pets, ultimately leading to improved outcomes. It was a collaborative effort of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society, spearheaded by Daniel Fletcher, assistant professor in veterinary emergency and critical care at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Manuel Boller, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine and Center for Resuscitation Science. The new guidelines are published in a special issue of the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. The issue also includes algorithms and drug-dose charts for practitioners. After surveying 600 practitioners, the researchers discovered a large amount of variation in how veterinarians do pet CPR.
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