title: Part 3: Adult Basic Life Support and Automated External Defibrillation: 2015 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations.
abstract: This review comprises the most extensive literature search and evidence evaluation to date on the most important international BLS interventions, diagnostics, and prognostic factors for cardiac arrest victims. It reemphasizes that the critical lifesaving steps of BLS are (1) prevention, (2) immediate recognition and activation of the emergency response system, (3) early high-quality CPR, and (4) rapid defibrillation for shockable rhythms. Highlights in prevention indicate the rational and judicious deployment of search-and-rescue operations in drowning victims and the importance of education on opioid-associated emergencies. Other 2015 highlights in recognition and activation include the critical role of dispatcher recognition and dispatch-assisted chest compressions, which has been demonstrated in multiple international jurisdictions with consistent improvements in cardiac arrest survival. Similar to the 2010 ILCOR BLS treatment recommendations, the importance of high quality was reemphasized across all measures of CPR quality: rate, depth, recoil, and minimal chest compression pauses, with a universal understanding that we all should be providing chest compressions to all victims of cardiac arrest. This review continued to focus on the interface of BLS sequencing and ensuring high-quality CPR with other important BLS interventions, such as ventilation and defibrillation. In addition, this consensus statement highlights the importance of EMS systems, which employ bundles of care focusing on providing high-quality chest compressions while extricating the patient from the scene to the next level of care. Highlights in defibrillation indicate the global importance of increasing the number of sites with public-access defibrillation programs. Whereas the 2010 ILCOR Consensus on Science provided important direction for the “what” in resuscitation (ie, what to do), the 2015 consensus has begun with the GRADE methodology to provide direction for the quality of resuscitation. We hope that resuscitation councils and other stakeholders will be able to translate this body of knowledge of international consensus statements to build their own effective resuscitation guidelines.
authors.forename: Andrew H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Travers
authors.forename: Gavin D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Perkins
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.forename: Maaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Castren
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Considine
authors.forename: Raffo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Escalante
authors.forename: Raul J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Gazmuri
authors.forename: Rudolph W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Koster
authors.forename: Swee Han
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Nation
authors.forename: Theresa M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Olasveengen
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Sayre
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sierra
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Smyth
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stanton
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vaillancourt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000009:adverse effects; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D002648:Child; D047548:Defibrillators; D004554:Electric Countershock / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D004630:Emergencies; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006266:Health Education; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D006336:Heart Massage / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009270:Naloxone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015701:Near Drowning / Q000628:therapy; D064887:Observational Studies as Topic; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D009270:Naloxone
keywords: arrhythmia; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; emergency department; resuscitation