European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Systems saving lives

Abstract

The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has produced these Systems Saving Lives guidelines, which are based on the 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Science with Treatment Recommendations. The topics covered include chain of survival, measuring performance of resuscitation, social media and smartphones apps for engaging community, European Restart a Heart Day, World Restart a Heart, KIDS SAVE LIVES campaign, lower-resource setting, European Resuscitation Academy and Global Resuscitation Alliance, early warning scores, rapid response systems, and medical emergency team, cardiac arrest centres and role of dispatcher.

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Basic Life Support

“…Measuring CPR performance to improve resuscitation systems is addressed in the Systems Saving Lives chapter. 102 Real-time feedback devices for CPR providers will be discussed in this section.…”

“…119À122 The role of mobile phone technology as a tool to activate first responders is also described in the Systems Saving Lives chapter. 102…”

Measure to improve – and more to be done

“…16 The new ERC guidelines emphasized with two new chapters that OHCA is a public health challenge and registration is essential. 2,17 The chapter on epidemiology underlines how important the two European research projects European Registry on Cardiac Arrest (EuReCa) are. EuReCa One and EuReCa two is our common understanding of current state of the epidemiology of OHCA and the disparity across Europe.…”

“…2,3,4 The chapter on System Saving Lives emphasizes that it takes a system approach to save a life. 17 The first and most essential step in the system approach in improving survival is to establish a cardiac registry. However, we still don't have one common European Cardiac Arrest Registry.…”

Lehre in der Reanimation

“…4 ). Einzelheiten über die Implementierung von Reanimationsmaßnahmen werden auch im Kapitel „Systems Saving Lives“ dieser ERC-Leitlinien ausführlicher behandelt [ 23 ].…”