Advanced life support

Resuscitation

Life support

Airway management

Emergency medical services

Airway

Cardiology

Intensive care medicine

Emergency medicine

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Defibrillation

Automated external defibrillator

Basic life support

Medical emergency

Intensive care

Anesthesia

Medicine

The European Resuscitation Council has produced these basic life support guidelines, which are based on the 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Science with Treatment Recommendations. The topics covered include cardiac arrest recognition, alerting emergency services, chest compressions, rescue breaths, automated external defibrillation (AED), CPR quality measurement, new technologies, safety, and foreign body airway obstruction.

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Basic Life Support