Progress Made, Pressure on.
Progress Made, Pressure on.
21st May 2026
John McIntyre Conference Centre, Pollock Halls, Edinburgh.
With a series of TED-style talks and rapid-fire presentations covering the whole system of cardiac arrest care, the key themes included community readiness, high-quality pre-hospital Advanced Life Support, in-hospital management and the aftercare for those involved in OHCA. This was the place to be for all things out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Scotland.
Talks from the day
welcome and introductions
Dr Gareth Clegg
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Resuscitation Research Group, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh.
Associate Medical Director, Scottish Ambulance Service.
Hon Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Keynote speech: ohca resuscitation - looking back in order to look forward
Prof. Andrew Lockey MBE
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax UK
President-Elect of the European Resuscitation Council
Precision resuscitation
Dr Els Freshwater
Advanced Practice Critical Care Clinical Lead - Scottish Ambulance Service
Visiting Professor - Buckinghamshire New University
video triage of ohca
Luke Roberts-Andreou
Cardiac clinical Lead - East of England Ambulance Service Trust
Termination of resuscitation
Steven Short
Programme Lead for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest, Scottish Ambulance Service
Shallow water blackouts and free diving
Prof. Andrew Baker
British Heart Foundation Chair of Translational Cardiovascular Sciences
Gustav Born Chair of Vascular Biology at the University of Edinburgh.
Newton lecture - innovation in community ohca management
Prof. Steven Brooks
Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
What the cardiologist saw
Dr Rong Bing
Consultant, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian
CAREzones
Chaired by Dr Gareth Clegg
Call to action
Liam Sagi
National Strategic Lead for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
Advanced Paramedic Critical Care – East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) and East Anglian Air Ambulance
Flash talks
Restart a Heart Live 2026
Susan Gardner
CPR Project Coordinator, Save a Life for Scotland
salfs recovery & Research update
Dr Vicky Joshi
Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
Director of the Save A Life For Scotland Recovery group and founder of the international collaboration network SABRE (Support After Bystander Resuscitation)
pads - who gets to save a life
Lisa MacInnes
ECAT-i PhD Candidate, IRR / Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh
keeping pads alive
Diane Lac
PhD Candidate, Design Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
a new link in the chain of survival: prehospital ecpr
Dr Stuart Gillon
Consultant in Critical Care, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian
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