title: Heart-to-heart talk. Roundtable discussion.
abstract: This past August the American Heart Association (AHA) released a major revision of its recommendations for emergency cardiovascular care (ECC). The 2000 guidelines simplify CPR techniques for the layperson and strongly promote the use of community early defibrillation. What repercussions can we expect from these changes? We asked five experts to join a roundtable discussion of the BLS aspects of these new guidelines. Their conversation follows.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Asaeda
authors.forename: R O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Cummins
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eckstein
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Racht
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000592:standards*; D004554:Electric Countershock; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States