Advanced Cardiac Life Support: A Review Before Residency

Advanced Cardiac Life Support guidelines 2011.

The main emphasis in the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) guidelines are in the areas of good quality chest compressions, ensuring normoventilation, removal of atropine from the cardiac arrest algorithm, removal of the use of the endotracheal route for drug administration, and renewed focus on the care provided after return of spontaneous circulation. In addition, the need for monitoring of...

Advanced cardiac life support in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

BACKGROUND The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study tested the incremental effect on the rate of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of adding a program of advanced life support to a program of rapid defibrillation. METHODS This multicenter, controlled clinical trial was conducted in 17 cities before and after advanced-life-support programs were instituted and enr...

Is advanced life support better than basic life support in prehospital care? A systematic review

BACKGROUND Prehospital care is classified into ALS- (advanced life support) and BLS- (basic life support) levels according to the methods used. ALS-level prehospital care uses invasive methods, such as intravenous fluids, medications and intubation. However, the effectiveness of ALS care compared to BLS has been questionable. AIM The aim of this systematic review is to compare the effectivene...

Factors impacting on quality of prehospital advanced cardiac life support

Advanced cardiac life support: what's new, what's old?

Approximately 300,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States each year. The American Heart Association (AHA) supports implementation of the “chain of survival” to rescue people who experience cardiac arrest in the community. The “chain of survival” consists of early recognition and emergency activation (phone 9-1-1), CPR, defibrillation, and advanced care. Advanced Cardiac L...