Post-Cardiac Arrest Therapeutic Hypothermia: Overcoming the Barrier of Workplace Culture and Other Implementation Lessons

The program illustrates key lessons for successful TH program implementation, such as the difficulty of organizing and coordinating complex interventions in complex institutions, the importance of overcoming workplace culture, the value of technology, the need for midcourse corrections, and the advantages of a physician-based rapid response system. Many of these lessons are applicable to any quality improvement intervention.