European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Systems saving lives

Federico Semeraro; Robert Greif; Bernd W Böttiger; Roman Burkart; Diana Cimpoesu; Marios Georgiou; Joyce Yeung; Freddy Lippert; Andrew S Lockey; Theresa M Olasveengen; Giuseppe Ristagno; Joachim Schlieber; Sebastian Schnaubelt; Andrea Scapigliati; Koenraad G Monsieurs

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.008

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Systems saving lives

Resuscitation. 2021 Apr:161:80-97. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.008. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medical Services, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: f.semeraro@ausl.bologna.it.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicina, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, School of Medicine, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
⁴ Interassociation of Rescue Services, Bern, Switzerland.
⁵ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Gr.T. Popa Iasi, Emergency Department, Emergency County Hospital Sf. Spiridon, Iasi, Romania.
⁶ American Medical Center Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁷ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
⁸ Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁹ Emergency Department, Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Anesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway.
¹¹ Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
¹² Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, AUVA Trauma Centre Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
¹³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁴ Institute of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
¹⁵ Emergency Department, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium.

PMID: 33773834
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.008

Abstract

The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has produced these Systems Saving Lives guidelines, which are based on the 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Science with Treatment Recommendations. The topics covered include chain of survival, measuring performance of resuscitation, social media and smartphones apps for engaging community, European Restart a Heart Day, World Restart a Heart, KIDS SAVE LIVES campaign, lower-resource setting, European Resuscitation Academy and Global Resuscitation Alliance, early warning scores, rapid response systems, and medical emergency team, cardiac arrest centres and role of dispatcher.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation*
Emergency Service, Hospital
Heart Arrest* / therapy
Humans