The Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival or CARES was initiated in 2004 as an agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University.
It is a simple but powerful database that allows cities to collect a small set of performance measures from 9-1-1, first responders, fire departments, and Emergency Medical Services, and link it with outcome data from hospitals.
[1] This data enables cities to perform internal benchmarking and improve their response to cardiac arrest by strengthening the chain of survival in their community.
[4] Since the program's inception, survival from cardiac arrest in the city of Atlanta has increased from 3% to 15%.
[6] According to the CDC, the specific objectives of the project are:[7] New Castle County, Delaware