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Grace Savage, LAT, ATC

Grace Savage, LAT, ATC

Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Grace Savage has been a certified athletic trainer for over eleven years. A graduate of Texas Wesleyan and Texas State, Grace has spent the majority of her career at the collegiate level and has recently transitioned to an administrative role with a hospital outreach program. She was originally exposed to the cardiocerebral resuscitation technique during an IPE event with local EMS in Abilene, TX in 2015 and has been intent on educating athletic trainers about minimally interrupted cardiac resuscitation ever since. Grace currently resides in Sanger, TX and enjoys road trips and hiking with her dog Addie.

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  • Cardiocerebral Resuscitation: The Key to Surviving Sudden Cardiac Arrest
    Contains 5 Component(s), Includes Credits

    Primary or sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is an emergency that every athletic trainer must be prepared for and know how to treat appropriately. However, the survival rate of patients that suffer out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been poor and unchanged from 1978 to 2008 at 7.6%. (17.7% for the more survivable OHCA caused by ventricular fibrillation, commonly seen in SCA).After the 2000 international consensus on CPR and emergency cardiac care (ECC) failed to acknowledge the growing evidence that compressions were much more indicative of survival than ventilations, a group of researchers in Arizona proposed cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) as…