BMJ 1998;316:1870-1876 ( 20 June )

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The 1998 European Resuscitation Council guidelines for adult single rescuer basic life support

Editorial by Nolan.

Members of the working group are listed at the end of the article. These guidelines have been published in Resuscitation, the official journal of the European Resuscitation Council (Resuscitation 1998;37:67-80[Medline])

Basic Life Support Working Group of the European Resuscitation Council. 

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The following guidelines were launched in Copenhagen in June 1998 and are based on an advisory statement by the Basic Life Support Working Group of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation.1

The term basic life support refers to maintaining airway patency and supporting breathing and the circulation without the use of equipment other than a protective shield.2 It comprises the elements: initial assessment, airway maintenance, expired air ventilation (rescue breathing), and chest compression. When all these elements are combined the term cardiopulmonary resuscitation is used. Basic life support implies that no equipment is used; when a simple airway, or face mask for mouth to mask resuscitation, is used this is defined as "basic life support with airway adjunct." The development of automated defibrillation has allowed minimally trained people to extend their skills in basic life support.

The purpose of basic life support is to maintain adequate ventilation and circulation until means . . . [Full text of this article]
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