European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Executive summary

Abstract: Informed by a series of systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence updates from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, the 2021 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines present the most up to date evidence-based guidelines for the practice of resuscitation across Europe. The guidelines cover the epidemiology of cardiac arrest; the role that systems play in saving lives, adult basic life support, adult advanced life support, resuscitation in special circumstances, post resuscitation care, first aid, neonatal life support, paediatric life support, ethics and education.

Corrigendum to “European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Executive summary” [Resuscitation (2021) 1–60]

Die personelle Situation im Rettungsdienst

Aus der Zielsetzung des Notarzteinsatzes ergibt sich ein zu fordernder Standard fur die fachliche Qualitat des Notarztes. So sollte die Zusatzqualifikation Notfallmedizin baldmoglichst in der gesamten Bundesrepublik eingefuhrt werden, um den innerklinisch geltenden Facharztstandard auch auf die praklinische Situation zu ubertragen. Zentrale Notaufnahmen konnen als Verbindung zwischen praklinischer und innerklinischer Notfallmedizin den gestiegenen Anforderungen notfallmedizinischer Versorgung gerecht werden. Der drohende Arztemangel darf nicht zu einer verminderten Qualitat der Versorgung fuhren. Die Einfuhrung des DRG-Systems hat eine Umstrukturierung der Krankenhauser zur Folge, die auch …

Active compression-decompression cardiopulmonary resuscitation — Instructor and student manual for teaching and training

In an attempt to standardize the teaching and training of active compression-decompression cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ACD-CPR), a group of leading emergency physicians, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, paramedics and nurses with practical, theoretical, educational, and scientific experience in the subject met in June 1995. The group was called The International Working Group of Teaching and Training Active Compression-Decompression CPR. The group was 'born' as a result of the first International Conference of Active Compression-Decompression CPR held in Copenhagen in March 1995. The following paper describes the background, development and text of and ACD-CPR course manual for both stu…