European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015 Section 3. Adult advanced life support

Abstract

Adult advanced life support (ALS) includes advanced interven-tions after basic life support has started and when appropriate anautomated external defibrillator (AED) has been used. These Guidelines are based on the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) 2015 Consensus on Science andTreatment Recommendations (CoSTR) for ALS. The 2015 ILCOR review focused on 42 topics organised in the approximate sequenceof ALS interventions: defibrillation, airway, oxygenation and ven-tilation, circulatory support, monitoring during CPR, and drugsduring CPR. For these Guidelines the ILCOR recommendations weresupplemented by focused literature reviews undertaken by the ERCALS Writing Group for those topics not reviewed in the 2015 ILCORCoSTR. Guidelines were drafted and agreed by the ALS Writing Group members before final approval by the ERC General Assembly and ERC Board