Antevy & DiBernardo: RQI and IHCA Survival (6/19/26)

Florida EMS Webinar | CPR Training, RQI, and the Case for Team-Based Resuscitation In this session of the Florida EMS Webinar, Dr. Peter Antevy and Thomas DiBernardo break down one of the most important resuscitation studies published in 2026 — and what Florida is doing about it. Dr. Antevy reviews the landmark JAMA Cardiology study by Chan et al., which examined nearly 50,000 in-hospital cardiac arrests across 237 US hospitals and found that adoption of the RQI program was not associated with any improvement in survival to discharge or return of spontaneous circulation. He explores why individual CPR training alone cannot move outcomes, what the evidence says about team-based resuscitation and continuous quality improvement, and why you cannot improve what you cannot measure. Thomas DiBernardo, representing the Florida Department of Health and serving as the state's lead on CARES data and the Florida Resuscitation Centers of Excellence program, presents Florida's systems-level response. He outlines how the FRCE program creates accountability between EMS agencies and receiving hospitals, and how the state's multimillion-dollar Resuscitate Florida initiative is equipping EMS agencies and dispatchers statewide to raise the standard of care from first contact through definitive treatment. Resuscitation is a team sport. This webinar explains why — and what Florida is building to prove it.