Basic and instrumented life support intervention protocol in an adult patient in accordance to new ERC 2005 recommendations

Abstract

In this study we make a brief account of the last valid recommendations related to basic life support in 2005. They are the result of the study and the analysis by International Liaison Committee On Resuscitation (ILCOR) and the American Hearth Association (AHA).Like the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) did before, they adopted new rules published on international framework with his inherent changes. On the whole, they has not developed so much, nearly all of them were aimed to improve the efficiency on several skill that take part of the process. In this way, some changes has been justified as a result of obtained data on the study and previous normative test, therefore their modification had scientific evidence.Both, adopted modifications and protocol, are described in order to exemplify all health personnel and other professionals. Like a common aim these changes try to unify criteria to make a universal protocol, independent from professional category and people who applies basic or instrumented CPR.So, new guides try to simplify different techniques and to improve those improvable aspects, at the same time that support better multidisciplinary teams integration in a new algorithm just as we describe on the study.

Keywords

• Basic life support
• cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• emergency
• protocol
• automated external defibrillator.