Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI)

Maximizing lifesaving outcomes

The Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) programs provide a high-reliability platform for simulation-based mastery learning, implemented through low-dose, high-frequency quality improvement sessions that measure and verify competence, to help healthcare providers retain life-saving skills. Co-developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) and Laerdal Medical, the RQI programs are now available to the Canadian healthcare market and supported and endorsed by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Laerdal Medical Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) Program

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Innovative competency-based program for high-quality CPR and improved patient outcomes

Many healthcare providers do not perform CPR as a normal part of their daily practice, and some may rarely perform CPR after their bi-annual training. As CPR compression and ventilation skills degrade from lack of use and practice, so does the overall effectiveness of CPR. As the quality of CPR degrades, this can literally become a matter of life and death for your patients.

Fortunately, you don’t have to invest hours every day to improve and maintain your proficiency. Brief and regular practice in CPR – low-dose/high-frequency education – has been shown to lead to better skills. The American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) Program, supported and endorsed by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, is a groundbreaking new approach to maintaining competence in CPR.

RQI verified CPR competence is the higher standard of care, demonstrated to improve clinical care delivery and to increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest.

Panchal et al, Resuscitation, 2019

Verified & confident

Advancing CPR education

High-quality CPR
RQI helps ensure your staff has the confidence and competence to perform high-quality CPR when it matters the most.

Low-dose, high-frequency
Frequent but short refresher training sessions make it easier to fit training into your schedule while preventing skills decay.

Objective skills feedback
Standardized skills training is completed on a Simulation Station featuring real-time, audiovisual directive feedback for high-quality CPR skills.

Safety and convenience

Leveraging digital learning technologies

Self-directed learning
With real-time guidance from our software, healthcare professionals can conduct self-directed training at their own pace.

True Adaptive Learning
Innovative algorithm adapts education in the RQI Prep course in real time to each learner’s level of expertise to deliver the most efficient learning path.

Anytime, anywhere, on any device
Featuring responsive design, the eLearning portion can be accessed online anytime, anywhere on a variety of devices.

The ROI of RQI

Training that saves time, and money

Short training sessions at your convenience
No more all-day-every-two-year-training-classes at an inconvenient location and costly travel budgets. Allow your healthcare providers to conduct 10-minute training sessions, on their floor of the hospital, when it suits them.

Reduced investments and maintenance
The RQI subscription model reduces capital investments, lowers future maintenance costs, and provides support on anything from equipment to software.

Automated eCredential
Certificates from RQI, available in the course language, are simple to administer and keep track of employee credentials.

Big results

Low-dose, high-frequency training is the foundation of the Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) programs that measure and verify competence, to help healthcare providers retain life-saving skills.

The results speak for themselves:

On average, more than 97% of all RQI users remain compliant.
A study done by Mercy Health found that 82% of users felt they were more confident in their CPR skills after using RQI.
Healthcare institutions using RQI see a +20% increase in survival rates from cardiac arrest.
Organizations implementing RQI have seen savings in areas of instructors, missed shifts or substitutions, material costs, travel, turnover-related training costs, and CPR manikin and technology maintenance costs. Illinois Valley Community Hospital in the United States benefitted from a +47% annual cost reduction.