Australian Resuscitation Council: adult advanced life support (ALS) guidelines 2006.

[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...

The 1998 European Resuscitation Council guidelines for adult advanced life support: A statement from the Working Group on Advanced Life Support, and approved by the executive committee.

In-hospital cardiac arrests: effect of amended Australian Resuscitation Council 2006 guidelines.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate cardiac arrest outcomes following the introduction of the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) 2006 amended guidelines for basic and advanced life support. METHODS A retrospective study of all consecutive cardiac arrests during a 3-year phase pre-implementation (2004-06) and a 3-year phase post-implementation (2007-09) of the ARC 2006 guidelines was conducted at a tert...

Annual resuscitation competency assessments: a review of the evidence.

BACKGROUND Australian critical care nurses generally undertake assessment of resuscitation competencies on an annual or biannual basis. International resuscitation evidence and guidelines released in 2010 do not support this practice, instead advocating more frequent retraining. AIM To review the evidence for annual assessment of resuscitation knowledge and skills, and for the efficacy of res...

European Resuscitation Council guidelines for resuscitation 2005. Section 4. Adult advanced life support.

Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Oslo University Hospital Ulleval, Oslo, Norway Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Critical Care and Resu...