Abstract
The European Resuscitation Council has produced these basic life support guidelines, which are based on the 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Science with Treatment Recommendations. The topics covered include cardiac arrest recognition, alerting emergency services, chest compressions, rescue breaths, automated external defibrillation (AED), CPR quality measurement, new technologies, safety, and foreign body airway obstruction.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 98-114 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Resuscitation |
| Volume | 161 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 24 Mar 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:TO declares research funding from Laerdal Foundation and Zoll Foundation. JS declares his role as an editor of Resuscitation; he declares institutional research funding for the Audit-7 project. MS reports unspecified institutional research funding. GR declares his role of consultant for Zoll; he reports research grant from Zoll for the AMSA trial and other Institutional grants: EU Horizon 2020 support for ESCAPE-NET, Fondazione Sestini support for the project “CPArtrial”, EU Horizon 2020 and Coordination and support for the action “iProcureSecurity”. GDP reports funding from Elsevier for his role as an editor of the journal Resuscitation. He reports research funding from the National Institute for Health Research in relation to the PARAMEDIC2 trial and the RESPECT project and from the Resuscitation Council UK and British Heart Foundation for the OHCAO Registry. AH declared his role of Medical advisor British Airways and Medical Director of Places for People.
Funding Information:
The Writing Group acknowledges the contributions by Tommaso Scquizzato in drafting the “How technology can help” section. GDP is supported by the by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
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