BMJ 1998;316:1863-1869 ( 20 June )

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The 1998 European Resuscitation Council guidelines for adult advanced life support

Editorial by Nolan.

These guidelines have been published in Resuscitation, the official journal of the European Resuscitation Council (Resuscitation 1998;37:81-90[Medline]). Members of the working group are listed at the end of the article

Advanced Life Support Working Group of the European Resuscitation Council. 

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The publication of guidelines for advanced life support by the European Resuscitation Council in 1992 was a landmark in international cooperation and coordination.1 Previously, individual countries or groups had produced guidelines,2 but for the first time an international group of experts produced consensus views based on the best available information. Since 1992 even wider international collaboration and support has occurred. In particular, the establishment of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation has facilitated global cooperation and discussion between representatives from North America, Europe, Southern Africa, Australia, and most recently Latin America. The advisory statement produced in 1997 by the committee forms the basis for these guidelines.3

The 1992 guidelines by the European Resuscitation Council indicated that review would occur on a regular basis. Change is not advocated for its own sake and is not warranted without convincing scientific or educational reasons. Education and its organisation is a process with a long latency, and it . . . [Full text of this article]
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