New basic life support guidelines for the management of adult and paediatric cardiopulmonary arrest have recently been recommended by the Resuscitation Council UK. Greater emphasis has been given to ...

Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support but may be less confident with paediatric basic life support skills, which are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

The guidelines for advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) underwent a comprehensive 5-year update in 2020, but focused updates for 2021 highlight the chain of survival, both in- and out-of-hospital, ...

When emergency medical responders receive a call that someone’s heart has stopped, standard practice is to send the best help available: a truck equipped with a team trained in provide everything ...

Dr. Harlan Krumholz answers the question: 'Should I Learn Basic Life Support?' — -- Question: Should I learn basic life support (BLS) if I have a relative in the family with heart disease? Answer ...

Every year, public safety professionals are called to tens of thousands of incidents in which a person has collapsed due to sudden cardiac arrest. This year alone, more than 350,000 people in the U.S.

For patients being treated with out-of-hospital life support for major trauma, stroke or respiratory failure, treatment with basic life support, rather than advanced life support, improved outcomes, ...

Redmond, Wash – Physio-Control, Inc., a global leader in emergency medical solutions and wholly‐owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc., (NYSE: MDT), today announced commercial availability of the ...

After closing to all but the most urgent patients for the last week, Harborview Medical Center is back to business as usual. The hospital was forced to go into basic life support divert August 11, ...