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.

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 ...

The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study tested the incremental effect on the rate of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of adding a program of advanced life support to a ...

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In the second of a series outlining basic life support, Emma Hammett describes how to resuscitate a patient who has collapsed in the dental practice Cardio-respiratory arrest is rare in primary dental ...