Award Criteria
Any Paramedic/SSC directly involved in the successful application of the links in the chain of survival, and meet the following criteria:
- The SSC must give PAI instruction for CPR on the phone and the caller must follow the instructions—this would indicate that the link in the chain remains intact.
- The Paramedic was directly involved in a ROSC as the third link in the chain prior to transfer of care to the hospital.
Note: If the Paramedic continues resuscitation care in the ER, and successfully regains a pulse prior to leaving the patient's side, this would also count as they continued to be part of the team leaving the links of the chain intact.