European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Executive summary

Gavin D Perkins; Jan-Thorsen Graesner; Federico Semeraro; Theresa Olasveengen; Jasmeet Soar; Carsten Lott; Patrick Van de Voorde; John Madar; David Zideman; Spyridon Mentzelopoulos; Leo Bossaert; Robert Greif; Koen Monsieurs; Hildigunnur Svavarsdóttir; Jerry P Nolan; European Resuscitation Council Guideline Collaborators

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.003

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Executive summary

Resuscitation. 2021 Apr:161:1-60. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.003. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Authors

Gavin D Perkins¹, Jan-Thorsen Graesner², Federico Semeraro³, Theresa Olasveengen⁴, Jasmeet Soar⁵, Carsten Lott⁶, Patrick Van de Voorde⁷, John Madar⁸, David Zideman⁹, Spyridon Mentzelopoulos¹⁰, Leo Bossaert¹¹, Robert Greif¹², Koen Monsieurs¹³, Hildigunnur Svavarsdóttir¹⁴, Jerry P Nolan¹⁵; European Resuscitation Council Guideline Collaborators

Affiliations

¹ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, B9 5SS, UK. Electronic address: g.d.perkins@warwick.ac.uk.
² University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Institute for Emergency Medicine, Kiel, Germany.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medical Services, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
⁵ Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; EMS Dispatch Center, East-West Flanders, Federal Department of Health, Belgium.
⁸ Department of Neonatology, University Hospitals Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
⁹ Thames Valley Air Ambulance, Stokenchurch, UK.
¹⁰ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
¹¹ University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
¹² Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; School of Medicine, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Belgium.
¹⁴ Akureyri Hospital, Akureyri, Iceland; University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland.
¹⁵ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; Royal United Hospital, Bath BA1 3NG, UK.

PMID: 33773824
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.003

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.

Publication types

Practice Guideline
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation*
Child
Europe
First Aid
Heart Arrest* / therapy
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Resuscitation
Systematic Reviews as Topic