European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2025 Paediatric Life Support

Abstract

These European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2025 Paediatric Life Support (PLS) are based on the Consensus on Science with Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR) of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and rapid reviews performed by the ERC Writing Group Paediatric Life Support of topics not covered by ILCOR. These Guidelines provide recommendations on the prevention of cardiac arrest, basic life support, advanced life support, resuscitation in special circumstances, post-resuscitation care, prognostication, and post-discharge care in infants, children and adolescents add brackets (aged 0-18 years), but does not cover resuscitation of the neonate at birth. The recommendations have been formulated for healthcare providers who take care of children and for the general public and includes recommendations on how to implement the Guidelines and system factors. Stakeholders from a range of health care settings were involved in the Guidelines development process and the views of the community advisors representing families of paediatric cardiac arrest survivors and non-survivors were also considered.

Keywords: Paediatric cardiac arrest; critically ill child; critically injured child; paediatric advanced life support; paediatric basic life support; post-discharge care; post-resuscitation care; prognostication.