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.
Highlights
Introduction and scopeThe Systems Saving Lives chapter describes numerous and important factors that can globally improve the management of cardiac arrest patients not as a single intervention but as a system-level approach
The concept behind the Systems Saving Lives approach to cardiac arrest is to emphasise the connections between the different individuals involved in the chain of survival
On the basis of expert consensus, it is recommended that national resuscitation councils, national governments and local authorities, engage with World Restart a Heart (WRAH) to raise awareness of the importance of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED), to train as many citizens as possible, and to develop new and innovative systems and policies that will save more lives
Summary
Introduction and scopeThe Systems Saving Lives chapter describes numerous and important factors that can globally improve the management of cardiac arrest patients not as a single intervention but as a system-level approach.
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