Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Basic life support. Revised recommendations of the Resuscitation Council (UK)

The 1998 European Resuscitation Council guidelines for adult single rescuer basic life support. Basic Life Support Working Group of the European Resuscitation Council.

[European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2000 for adult advanced life support].

The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) last issued guidelines for Advanced Life Support (ALS) in 1998 [1]. These were based on the 1997 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Advisory Statements [2]. In 1999 and 2000 representatives of ILCOR, at the invitation of the American Heart Association, met on a number of occasions in Dallas to agree a Consensus on Science upon which...

European Resuscitation Council guidelines for resuscitation 2005. Section 2. Adult basic life support and use of automated external defibrillators.

0 d asic life support (BLS) refers to maintaining airway atency and supporting breathing and the circulaion, without the use of equipment other than a rotective device.1 This section contains the guideines for adult BLS by lay rescuers and for the use f an automated external defibrillator (AED). It lso includes recognition of sudden cardiac arrest, he recovery position and management of choking...

European Resuscitation Council guidelines for resuscitation 2005.

BASIC LIFE SUPPORT All rescuers trained or not, should provide chest compressions to victims of cardiac arrest. The aim should be to push to a depth of at least 5 cm at a rate of at least 100 compressions per minute, to allow full chest recoil, and to minimise interruptions in chest compressions. Trained rescuers should also provide ventilations with a compression-ventilation ratio of 30:2. ELE...

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015: Section 2. Adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation.

uropean Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015 ection 2. Adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation avin D. Perkinsa,b,∗, Anthony J. Handleyc, Rudolph W. Kosterd, Maaret Castréne, ichael A. Smytha,f, Theresa Olasveengeng, Koenraad G. Monsieursh,i, Violetta Raffay j, an-Thorsten Gräsnerk, Volker Wenzel l, Giuseppe Ristagnom, Jasmeet Soarn, on behalf of he Adu...