Registration Opens for 2025 Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit

June 19, 2025

Registration opens

Registration Opens for 2025 Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit New Theme Broadens Focus to Include Other Time Sensitive Emergencies

CHICAGO — June 19, 2025 — Registration is now open to CASSummit 25, a premier resuscitation conference that is unique in addressing every link in the chain for survival. The conference, sponsored by the Citizen CPR Foundation, takes place Dec. 3-6, at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Summit attracts a wide range of resuscitation practitioners, advocates and training professionals, from both the prehospital and hospital fields. It also brings in survivors and features a track especially for them. A highlight of the conference is the Survivor-Rescuer Celebration, a fun and inspirational special event that is free to everyone.

“The Summit is a networking bonanza,” said Stu Berger, MD, President of the Foundation, and Executive Director for the Heart Center at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. “Participants get to mingle with some of the greatest minds in resuscitation from all over the world.”

Embracing Other Time-Sensitive Emergencies

This year’s Summit theme is “Seconds to Act—Empowering the Response to Cardiac Arrest and Life-Threatening Emergencies.” It expands the program to include other time-sensitive emergencies, such as opioid overdoses, uncontrolled bleeding, drowning and other conditions that will lead to cardiac arrest and death unless there is swift intervention, often by a lay person.

“We’re celebrating 65 years of CPR this year,” says Ed Racht, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Global Medical Response and the Summit Program Chair. “Through all that experience, we’ve created effective systems of care for sudden cardiac arrest that incorporates the bystander. We think we can leverage that knowledge to better treat other life-threatening conditions.”

New AHA Guidelines

The American Heart Association will release new CPR and ECC Guidelines—the first in five years— just weeks before Summit. The conference will be the initial major gathering after the release, and the AHA will be bringing in dozens of the experts to the Summit who researched and wrote the guidelines. Through a variety of interactive workshops, general and concurrent sessions, they’ll explain what changed, what didn’t and why.

With more than 100 educational opportunities facilitated by 200 expert faculty, the Summit offers something for everyone.

About the Citizen CPR Foundation:

The first Conference for Citizen CPR was successfully held at Baylor University in 1980. The Citizen CPR Foundation was later formed to administer the biennial conference, with founding partners the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross and the Heart/Lung Foundation of Canada. For many years known as ECCU—the Emergency Care Update Conference—the conference was renamed the Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit in 2018 to focus on improving survival rates. Today the Foundation also hosts the HEARTSafe Community initiative.

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