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Our Mission

To help save 150,000 more lives from sudden cardiac arrest each year by 2025.

Through the power of collaboration with healthcare providers globally, we can change the resuscitation standard of care through continuous learning and quality improvement, leading to verified competence in high-quality CPR delivery.

Our Mission

RQI Partners’ Formation

RQI Partners is a partnership between the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical, positioning the organizations to deliver innovative solutions that accelerate the impact of their lifesaving mission. The company blends the Association’s leadership in science and resuscitation education with Laerdal’s expertise in technology and implementation to deliver impactful and innovative resuscitation quality improvement programs. Our goals include:

  • Helping save lives through modernized, digital resuscitation training programs powered by evidence-based science, educational principles and leading simulation technology
  • Developing and implementing resuscitation quality improvement programs to optimize patient outcomes.
  • Creating a new standard of care by shifting resuscitation practice from compliance to verified CPR competence.

Development of RQI Partners

Development of RQI Partners

2010

Research funded by Laerdal Medical finds three-month cycles optimal to eliminate CPR skills decay.

2013

AHA’s Education Statement recommends low-dose, high-frequency CPR skills training.

2015

AHA and Laerdal Medical develop the Resuscitation quality Improvement (RQI) training program.

2018

AHA and Laerdal Medical form RQI Partners to enhance training programs and distribute them to healthcare providers.

2025

Save Lives: By redefining the standard of learning, RQI Partners aims to save 50,000 more lives per year from cardiac arrest by 2025.

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RQI Partners aims to redefine the standard of care with mastery-level learning and retained CPR skills.

RQI for NRP

Our Mission

To save 150,000 more lives from sudden cardiac arrest per year by 2025 with verified resuscitation competence.

Through the power of collaboration with healthcare providers across the country, we can change the standard of care to mastery learning with verified competence.

Instructor-led Training

Who Is RQI Partners

RQI Partners is a collaboration between the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical dedicated to developing and implementing innovative resuscitation solutions to eliminate preventable and unexpected cardiac arrest deaths. Embracing a culture of continuous learning and a pursuit of excellence, our goals include:

  • Saving lives through modernized resuscitation training programs, evidence-based science and educational principles.
  • Developing and implementing resuscitation quality improvement systems to optimize patient outcomes.
  • Creating a new standard of care by shifting resuscitation practice into verified CPR competence.

RQI Partners is creating a new standard of care that transitions resuscitation practice from focusing solely on course completion to emphasizing verified CPR competence.

Who is RQI Partners:

RQI Partners is a partnership between the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical. Our company is focused on delivering innovative resuscitation solutions that support our vision to eliminate preventable and unexpected cardiac arrest deaths.

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The New Standard of Care

The ability to consistently perform high-quality CPR is crucial for improving cardiac arrest outcomes; the difference between CPR and high-quality CPR is survival. Conversely, providing poor-quality CPR is a preventable harm. However, research shows not all patients receive the necessary high-quality CPR to optimize their chances of survival:

  • Cardiac arrest survival rates currently average less than 26%
  • CPR skills decay within three to six months following conventional training
  • There is a 42% difference in the odds of survival for patients at similar hospitals with a similar case mix
  • Patients receive poor-quality CPR more than 50% of the time, despite the efforts of motivated healthcare professionals
2020 AHA Guidelines

Cardiac arrest survival rates currently average less than 26%

One Million Lives

There is a 42% difference in the odds of survival for patients at similar hospitals with a similar case mix.

2020 AHA Guidelines

CPR skills decay within three to six months following conventional training

One Million Lives

Despite the efforts of motivated healthcare professionals, patients are receiving poor-quality CPR more than 50% of the time

Leadership

The American Heart Association (AHA), Laerdal Medical and RQI Partners’ executives commemorate the formation of RQI Partners.

RQI Executive Team

Back row (from left): AHA VP and General Counsel Lewis Kinard, RQI Partners CEO Brian Eigel, RQI Partners Former CEO Clive Patrickson, AHA Chief of Mission-Aligned Businesses & Healthcare Solutions John Meiners, AHA COO Suzie Upton, AHA Chief Administrative Officer Larry Cannon, Laerdal Medical COO Alf-Christian Dybdahl. Front row (from left): AHA CEO Nancy Brown, Laerdal Medical Chairman and CEO Tore Laerdal

Careers at RQI Partners

RQI Partners employees are connected through a mission-driven vision and united by a commitment to helping save more lives from sudden cardiac arrest. We are always searching for more passionate professionals to join our growing global team.

Careers at RQI Partners