This is the sixth annual summary of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular …

Basic life support (BLS) is the foundation for saving lives following cardiac arrest.
Fundamental aspects of BLS include immediate recognition of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) …

Adult advanced life support (ALS) includes advanced interventions after basic life support
has started and when appropriate an automated external defibrillator (AED) has been used …

A doença cardíaca isquêmica, principal determinante da PCR, continua liderando as
causas de morte no mundo, e no Brasil não é diferente. 1, 2 Em 2013, nos Estados Unidos …

These guidelines on paediatric life support are based on three main principles:(1) the
incidence of critical illness, particularly cardiopulmonary arrest, and injury in children is …

The" 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and
Emergency Cardiovascular Care" increased the focus on methods to ensure that high …

Importance A strategy using mechanical chest compressions might improve the poor
outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but such a strategy has not been tested in large …

Objective: Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation recommend a chest compression
rate of at least 100 compressions/min. A recent clinical study reported optimal return of …

Background—The 2010 American Heart Association guidelines suggested an increase in
cardiopulmonary resuscitation compression depth with a target> 50 mm and no upper limit …

Heart rhythms associated with cardiac arrest are divided into two groups: shockable rhythms
(ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT)) and non-shockable rhythms …