European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Systems saving lives

  • Federico Semeraro
  • , Robert Greif
  • , Bernd W Böttiger
  • , Roman Burkart
  • , Diana Cimpoesu
  • , Marios Georgiou
  • , Joyce Yeung
  • , Freddy Lippert
  • , Andrew S Lockey
  • , Theresa M Olasveengen
  • , Giuseppe Ristagno
  • , Joachim Schlieber
  • , Sebastian Schnaubelt
  • , Andrea Scapigliati
  • , Koenraad G Monsieurs

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Abstract

The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has produced these Systems Saving Lives guidelines, which are based on the 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Science with Treatment Recommendations. The topics covered include chain of survival, measuring performance of resuscitation, social media and smartphones apps for engaging community, European Restart a Heart Day, World Restart a Heart, KIDS SAVE LIVES campaign, lower-resource setting, European Resuscitation Academy and Global Resuscitation Alliance, early warning scores, rapid response systems, and medical emergency team, cardiac arrest centres and role of dispatcher.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)80-97
Number of pages18
JournalResuscitation
Volume161
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Heart Arrest/therapy
  • Humans

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