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Unit for Pre-hospital Emergency Care (UPEC)

Key Areas of Interest

This is an overview of the team’s key areas of interest and research projects. It also highlights ongoing and completed studies covering pre‑hospital and emergency care.

Last updated 8 July 2026

Key Areas of Interest

  1. Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA): CPR, AED and community-based interventions

  2. Post-OHCA care

  3. Quality of bystander CPR

  4. Access to AEDs and installation strategies

  5. Community response to OHCA

  6. Ambulance diversion and Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding

  7. ED Frequent Attenders

  8. Patient care standards and monitoring outcomes

  9. Managing demand for Emergency Ambulance Services (EAS)

List of Projects

Current and Ongoing Projects

  1. Bystander CPR and survival in six regions of Singapore saturated with trained and equipped volunteers with AED access (including TCPR Link).

  2. AED on Wheels: A Pilot Programme to Equip Singapore Taxis with AEDs.

  3. Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Care through Empowered Community First Responders: Mobile External Defibrillation Investigation for Cardiac arrest in Singapore (MEDICS).

  4. Ambulance diversion and ED overcrowding.

  5. Optimising AED placements.

  6. National CPR/AED Survey.

Completed Projects

  1. A prospective randomised controlled trial to explore the effectiveness of a new approach to teaching community CPR+AED: the “RESTART A HEART” programme.

  2. Evaluation of CPR and AED skill decline and determination of training interval for a simplified community-based training.

  3. Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Singaporeans towards Use of the Automated External Defibrillator (AED).

  4. Survey for myResponder app users: explores community responders' OHCA case experience and CPR+AED training needs (such as refresher classes).

  5. The Association of Gender with Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Performance, Knowledge, and Attitudes amongst Laypersons.

  6. AED-On-Wheels: Learning from Driver Feedback and the public’s perspectives.

  7. Evaluation of Save-A-Life Initiative.

  8. Comparative study on the quality of CPR by the first responder through video-assisted coaching versus video-assisted coaching using real-time feedback with a CPRcard™.