Early on in his medical studies, Kasper Glerup Lauridsen noticed a difference in the treatment of cardiac arrest at hospital and outside hospital. CPR treatment at hospitals is rarely systematised and the absence of effective routines and a shared language often leads to an unnecessarily long interruption in CPR, and this reduces patients’ chances of survival.

In his PhD project, Kasper Glerup Lauridsen examined how to optimise cooperation within the CPR team at hospitals to achieve better CPR treatment. He analysed 3,700 questionnaire responses, and with input from NASA, elite sports and the aviation industry, he tried to identify the optimal model for standardised communication. The goal is shorter interruptions during heart massage. The research results have already led to amendments in the European guidelines in this area.

The Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD Awards recognise newly minted PhD graduates whose work in their fields and their presentation of the work has received extraordinary recognition. The recipients each receives DKK 50,000. This is the 20th time the awards have been presented, and this year's recipients also include an anthropologist, a psychologist, a theoretical chemist and a software engineer.

Contact

PhD and medical doctor Kasper Glerup Lauridsen
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital – Research Center for Emergency Medicine
Email: kglerup@clin.au.dk

This coverage is based on press material from the Aarhus University Research Foundation.