European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Basic Life Support

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¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: t.m.olasveengen@medisin.uio.no.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medical Services, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy; Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Italy.
⁴ Emergency Medicine, Helsinki University and Department of Emergency Medicine and Services, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
⁵ Hadstock, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁶ Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, V.A. Negovsky Research Institute of General Reanimatology, Moscow, Russia.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Belgium.
⁸ Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁹ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom; West Midlands Ambulance Service and Midlands Air Ambulance, Brierly Hill, West Midlands DY5 1LX, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Akureyri Hospital, Akureyri, Iceland; Institute of Health Science Research, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland.
¹² Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham B9 5SS, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33773835
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.009

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Basic Life Support

Theresa M Olasveengen et al. Resuscitation. 2021 Apr.

. 2021 Apr:161:98-114.

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.009. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: t.m.olasveengen@medisin.uio.no.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medical Services, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy; Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Italy.
⁴ Emergency Medicine, Helsinki University and Department of Emergency Medicine and Services, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
⁵ Hadstock, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁶ Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, V.A. Negovsky Research Institute of General Reanimatology, Moscow, Russia.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Belgium.
⁸ Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁹ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom; West Midlands Ambulance Service and Midlands Air Ambulance, Brierly Hill, West Midlands DY5 1LX, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Akureyri Hospital, Akureyri, Iceland; Institute of Health Science Research, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland.
¹² Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham B9 5SS, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33773835
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.009

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.

Keywords: Automated External Defibrillator; Basic Life support; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Chest compression; Emergency Medical Dispatch; Emergency Medical Services; Guidelines; Rescue breaths; Ventilation.

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