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

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...

Implementation of National Resuscitation Guidelines 2006.

The implementation of guidelines released by the National Resuscitation Council in 2006 involved all the main areas of resuscitation, especially basic life support and defibrillation. The emphasis was on community training, creation of simplified programmes, combining cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation, and using simpler training devices. As a result, public access defibrill...

ERC 2010 guidelines for adult and pediatric resuscitation: summary of major changes.

The new European Resuscitation Council (ERC) guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) published on October 18th, 2010, replace those published in 2005 and are based on the latest International Consensus on CPR Science with Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR). For both adult and pediatric resuscitation, the most important general changes include: the introduction of chest compression-onl...

Quality of basic life support when using different commercially available public access defibrillators

BACKGROUND Basic life support (BLS) guidelines focus on chest compressions with a minimal no-flow fraction (NFF), early defibrillation, and a short perishock pause. By using an automated external defibrillator (AED) lay persons are guided through the process of attaching electrodes and initiating defibrillation. It is unclear, however, to what extent the voice instructions given by the AED migh...

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