ERC Guidelines for resuscitation 2010

ERC Guidelines for resuscitation 2010

https://www.erc.edu/index.php/doclibrary/en/209/1/

1. Executive summary;
2. Adult basic life support and use of automated external
defibrillators;4
3. Electrical therapies: automated external defibrillators, defibrillation,
cardioversion and pacing;5
4. Adult advanced life support;6
5. Initial management of acute coronary syndromes;7
6. Paediatric life support;8
7. Resuscitation of babies at birth;9
8. Cardiac arrest in special circumstances: electrolyte abnormalities,
poisoning, drowning, accidental hypothermia, hyperthermia,
asthma, anaphylaxis, cardiac surgery, trauma, pregnancy,
electrocution;10
9. Principles of education in resuscitation;11
10. The ethics of resuscitation and end-of-life decisions.12
The guidelines that follow do not define the only way that resuscitation
can be delivered; they merely represent a widely accepted
view of how resuscitation should be undertaken both safely and
effectively. The publication of new and revised treatment recommendations
does not imply that current clinical care is either unsafe
or ineffective.



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