“…European research has significantly influenced the management of sudden death and the frequently underlying acute coro nary syndrome: defibrillation (JL Pré-vost and F Batelli, Geneva 1899), prehospital cardiac care (Frank Pantridge, Belfast 1965), coronary angioplasty (Andreas Gruntzig 1975), therapeutic hypothermia, and the introduction of many drugs such as β-blockers, calcium antagonists, aspirin, fibrinolytics, and antiarrhythmics. These all underwent further development within international organisations worldwide [4].…”