Emergency studies topic of public forums

The Health System has embarked on a new phase of advanced research in emergency medical care that involves feedback through public meetings.

For the first time, U-M researchers are able to study potentially beneficial treatments on patients with life-threatening emergency conditions who are unconscious or otherwise unable to give permission, or who don't have a family member or legal representative available to give permission before treatment starts.

The first studies seeking approval from the Medical School Institutional Review Board will involve CPR-assisting devices, and a comparison of two commonly used medicines for severe seizures in children. Public meetings on both studies are planned as part of the "community consultation" phase that is required before a study can receive approval.

The CPR study, called ResQ, will test two different devices that may improve the survival of cardiac-arrest patients who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Public meetings seeking comment on the ResQ study will be conducted at 6 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Ann Arbor District Library's Downtown Branch; at 7 p.m. Aug. 22 in Saint Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital's community rooms in Howell; and 7 p.m. Aug. 23 at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital's education center auditorium in Ypsilanti. One session will be videotaped for broadcast on Ann Arbor Community Television.

Future notices regarding medical study public meetings may be submitted to the University Record ( www.umich.edu/~urecord/events_index.shtml) for publication in the events pages. For more information about the UMHS emergency medicine research changes, go to med.umich.edu/em.

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