The "Resuscitation Guidelines 2005" are published in A4 booklet form by the Resuscitation Council (UK).   The booklet contains detailed information about Emergency Life Support and can be obtained from the Resuscitation Council (UK).   Please refer to our publications page for full details of this and other publications available from the Council.

The following chapters from the Guidelines deal with some of the issues of basic and advanced life support for adults, paediatrics and the newborn, as well as guidelines for the use of Automated External Defibrillators and other related topics.

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Topic:	Author:
Introduction	Michael Colquhoun Jerry Nolan
Adult Basic Life Support	Anthony Handley
The use of Automated External Defibrillators	Sian Davies
Prevention of in-hospital    cardiac arrest and decisions about    cardiopulmonary resuscitation	Gary Smith
In-hospital Resuscitation	Jasmeet Soar Ken Spearpoint
Adult Advanced Life Support	Charles Deakin Jerry Nolan Gavin Perkins
Peri-Arrest Arrhythmias	Jerry Nolan
Paediatric Basic Life Support	Robert Bingham David Zideman Sheila Simpson
Paediatric Advanced Life Support	Barbara Phillips Ian Maconochie
Newborn Life Support	Sam Richmond

 
Please note that throughout the Guidelines the masculine is used to denote the masculine or feminine.
 
 
Errata
 
A correction has been made to the Paediatric Basic Life Support section of the Guidelines since they have been published.
 
 
Algorithms
 
The algorithms contained in the above guidelines are available as separate single-page documents.   Please click here to access the algorithms.
 
 
Posters
 
We have also created posters for the algorithms contained in the guidelines.
You can download any of these posters as required, and print them up to A2 size.
Please click here to select posters for downloading.
 
 
 
 

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