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Five Reasons to Submit a Presentation or Poster for CASSummit 2025
5. The superb Arizona Grand Resort and Spa in Phoenix in December, decked out in holiday colors and glorious sunshine. What more can we say?
4. Hearing survivor and lay rescuer stories never fails to inspire us and reignite our enthusiasm. You’ll come away refreshed and renewed as you energize others.
3. You’ll be educated yourself with the latest trends, research and case studies and leave with practical lessons to bring back to your own community. The conference will address the first full scientific review of ECC guidelines in the past decade.
2. You get to be part of an exclusive network of faculty with some of the most notable minds in the resuscitation profession.
1. Most importantly? This is a great opportunity to share your knowledge and experience to help in the effort to save more lives. Whether you work in the prehospital field or in the hospital, CASSummit wants your engagement, expertise and ideas.
Key Information About Submitting Your Presentation to the 2025 Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit
This year's theme:
Seconds to Act-Empowering the Response to Cardiac Arrest and Life-Threatening Emergencies Engage our communities with a systems approach to time-sensitive emergencies
CASSummit is unique in addressing every link in the chain of survival, providing education and inspiration to prehospital and in-hospital resuscitation practitioners, educators, survivors and community advocates. This year, we’re expanding our focus to address time- sensitive emergencies that require the same preparedness, rapid response and medical intervention as sudden cardiac arrest. What best practices, research, awareness and advocacy, or real-life case studies can you share with our engaged and eager-to-learn CASSummit audience? Explore this page for details about this year’s theme, suggested presentation topics, submission rules and more.
Important dates: Submission closes March 14, 2025 (submissions due by 11:59 p.m. ET)
Important dates: Submission closes March 14, 2025 (submissions due by 11:59 p.m. ET)
Submission Content Guidance
The CASSummit Program Committee is looking for resuscitation content for concurrent sessions in both the prehospital and hospital areas. Type of content includes:
- Case studies
- Best practices
- System-wide interventions
- New research or review of established research
We are also seeking content addressing a variety of time-sensitive emergences that result in cardiac arrest (secondary to other conditions) and which requires quick bystander intervention, including but not limited to:
- Uncontrolled hemorrhaging
- Opioid overdose
- Drowning
- Complications of childbirth
- Stroke
Areas of Focus
These are notable topic area examples to help guide submission. You’ll be asked to check one or two areas when you officially submit.
- 911, EMS, Fire and/or Law Enforcement: Best Practices and Case Studies
- Hospital: Clinical Challenges and Innovations
- Community Strategies in Specific Settings: Schools, Industry, Hotels, Stadiums, Etc.
- Overcoming Challenges in Resuscitation Education and Training: Time, Financial Resources, Bandwidth, Etc.
- Citizen and Bystander Training for Time-Sensitive Emergencies: What’s New and What Works?
- HEARTSafe Communities: Strategies for Success Youth and/or Athletes: Interventions and Readiness
- Survivorship and Advocacy: Learning from Experience-the Science and the Stories
- International Efforts: CPR/AED Education, Implementation, Etc.
- Emerging Technologies: What They Mean for the Way We Teach and Practice Resuscitation Can Include the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Virtual Reality (VR), and/or Augmented Reality (AR)
- Special interest: Resuscitation-related Topics not Included Above
A Message From Ed Racht, MD, CASSummit 2025 Program Chair:
“In choosing this year’s focus and theme, we have expanded our topics and reach to use our lessons learned, research, and best practices to address the preparation, identification and care in resuscitating patients whose hearts have stopped no matter the cause.”
A Message From Ed Racht, MD, CASSummit 2025 Program Chair:
“In choosing this year’s focus and theme, we have expanded our topics and reach to use our lessons learned, research, and best practices to address the preparation, identification and care in resuscitating patients whose hearts have stopped no matter the cause.”
What Makes a Good Presentation?
A good presentation is timely, relevant and presented by faculty who have unique insight into the topic.
It is characterized by a clear and concise message, well-structured content, a compelling narrative, and a satisfying conclusion that provides the audience with key takeaways, all aimed at improving survival outcomes through the advancement of emergency care science and practice.
Preference will be provided for submissions that are evidence based and provide participants with insight into relevant issues, new ideas and pragmatic methods in implementation. Submissions related to experience in the implementation of guidelines, innovations and best practices are also strongly encouraged.
All submissions will be blind peer-reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness and relevance to the conference theme and sub-themes. We welcome presentations that address any condition that requires the re- start of the heart.
Potential Topics
In keeping with this year’s theme, please consider topics that address all time-sensitive emergencies, such as Stop the Bleed initiatives, overdoses or drowning.
- Reducing time to chest compressions and first shock
- 911, EMS, Fire and/or Law Enforcement- best practices and case studies
- Methods for delivering more effective real-world training that translates to performance
- Youth and/or athletes-interventions and readiness
- International interventions, research and case studies
- Improving lay responder willingness to respond and developing rescuer mindsets
- Building highly reliable systems of care
- Community strategies in specific settings, e.g. schools, industry, hotels, stadiums, etc.
- Implementation of effective early AED defibrillation programs
- Survivorship and advocacy-learning from experience (science and stories)
- Creating programs to standardize and enhance Telecommunicator CPR (TCPR) and AED utilization
- Emerging technologies and what they mean for the teaching and practice of resuscitation?
- Examples include artificial intelligence (Al), machine learning (ML), virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
- Advancing cardiac arrest data collection, analysis and use across the system
- Increasing survivor, family and lay responder engagement and partnership
- Effective examples of legislative advocacy and regulatory change related to SCA
- HEARTSafe Community experience
- Global Resuscitation Alliance 10 steps to improve in-hospital cardiac arrest
- CPR in the schools and workplace
- Improving resuscitation quality among professional rescuers
- Efforts to identify and address disparities, e.g. race, sex, gender, age, SES, etc.
- Pediatric resuscitation
- Special interest: Resuscitation-related topics not already included above
The CASSummit Program Committee is looking for resuscitation content for concurrent sessions in both the prehospital and hospital areas. Type of content includes:
- Case studies
- Best practices
- System-wide interventions
- New research or review of established research
Call for Presentations:
Opens Jan. 13, 2025
Closes March 14, 2025
Jump here for more information about submitting
Exhibitor & Sponsor Info:
Types of Presentations
The Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit will be structured to include the following types of presentations:
- Half- and full-day pre-conference workshops
These are four to eight hours in length and run prior to the start of the full conference. They are designed to present more in-depth training and education to targeted
audiences. Often, they are sponsored by an organization to provide education on a topic related to that organization’s expertise.
- General sessions are by invitation only.
- Concurrent sessions
These interactive sessions address topics of special interest to segments of the conference audience. They can be in the form of case studies, summary of research or implementation projects, sharing of best practices, facilitated discussion or all of the above.
- Poster and roundtable presentations
Contribute to the field of resuscitation by sharing your research and best practices. Everyone, regardless of your experience as a presenter, is encouraged to submit for these sessions.
- Poster
- Consists of a visual display combined with a dedicated interpersonal question-and-answer period.
Breakfast with Champions
- Consists of a visual display combined with a dedicated interpersonal question-and-answer period.
- Roundtable
- Roundtable discussions will start with a five-minute talk from the submitting presenter, followed by a Q&A and further discussion from table participants.
- Poster
Submission Rules, Selection Process & William H. Montgomery Award
- All proposed presentations and application materials must be submitted through the online submission site.
- Without exception, submissions must be received through the website by 11:59 p.m. ET on March 14, 2025. Late and/or incomplete submissions will not be considered.
- When applying, you’ll be asked which presentation format you prefer and prompted to provide additional information about presenters. You must complete all required fields.
Accepted presentations may be published in the CASSummit program and on the CCPRF website. Questions? Contact us at CASSummit2025@augeomarketing.com
Selection Process and Criteria
Selection Process and Criteria
The Citizen CPR Foundation Program Committee will review applications for pre-conference workshops, concurrent sessions and posters/round tables. The quality of the presentation content and relevance to the conference theme are the most important factors in the selection process. Quality will be determined based on relevance, significance, originality and innovation. The appeal of the proposed method of presentation, given the presentation content, will also influence selection. We encourage entertaining and informative presentations that engage the audience and make use of graphics, interactions and dialogue.
All submissions, presentation proposals and posters will go through a peer-reviewed, blind process with representative experts in the field. The CASSummit Program Committee will review recommendations from the reviewer panel and will make final selections for the program.
Outstanding
Submission is exemplary with regard to the criteria
Very Good
Submission performs strongly with regard to the criteria
Good
Submission has fulfilled the criteria but is not remarkable
Poor
Does not meet criteria/expectations
Applicants will be notified via email 6-8 weeks following the deadline regarding the status of their submission. Upon receival of the status of your submission, you will have the opportunity to accept or decline the presentation format you have been slated for.
William H. Montgomery, MD, Excellence in Education Award
All presentations selected for a concurrent session presentation at Summit 2025 will be eligible to win the William H. Montgomery, MD Excellence in Education Award. This award, sponsored by the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine, is named in honor of Dr. William H. Montgomery, who served as co-founder and President of the Citizen CPR Foundation (CCPRF) for over 15 years. A plaque and $1,000 will be awarded to the lead presenter as identified on the presentation application. Please note: American Heart Association, American Red Cross, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Citizen CPR Foundation- sponsored speakers are not eligible.
The award is designed to promote the highest level of educational excellence at the Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit. It is our hope that this award will encourage presenters to seek excellence in all areas of education. With that in mind, presentations will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Value of the content to the CASSummit audience
- Quality of teaching methodology
- Innovation
- Presenter’s knowledge of the subject matter
- Degree to which the objectives of the presentation were achieved
- Overall quality of presentation
