Michael R. Sayre, William H. Montgomery, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Walter Kloeck, Jerry P. Nolan, Saul Drajer, Jonathan Wyllie, Andrew H. Travers, Charles D. Deakin, Allan R. de Caen, Robert E. O'Connor, Mary Fran Hazinski, Kjetil Sunde, Rudolph W. Koster, Swee Han Lim, Brian Eigel, Mary E. Mancini, Ian Jacobs, Michael Shuster, Leo Bossaert, Robert W. Hickey, Jeffrey M. Perlman, Jasmeet Soar, Laurie J. Morrison, Bernd W. Böttiger, John E. Billi, Peter T. Morley, Monica E. Kleinman, Kazuo Okada, David Zideman, ACS - Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, and Cardiology
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) was founded on November 22, 1992, and currently includes representatives from the American Heart Association (AHA), the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR), Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa (RCSA), the InterAmerican Heart Foundation (IAHF), and the Resuscitation Council of Asia (RCA). Its mission is to identify and review international science and knowledge relevant to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC) and when there is consensus to offer treatment recommendations. Emergency cardiovascular care includes all responses necessary to treat sudden life-threatening events affecting the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, with a particular focus on sudden cardiac arrest. In 1999, the AHA hosted the first ILCOR conference to evaluate resuscitation science and develop common resuscitation guidelines. The conference recommendations were published in the International Guidelines 2000 for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care .1 Since 2000, researchers from the ILCOR member councils have evaluated resuscitation science in 5-year cycles. The conclusions and recommendations of the 2005 International Consensus Conference on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations were published at the end of 2005.2,3 The most recent International Consensus Conference was held in Dallas in February 2010, and this publication contains the consensus science statements and treatment recommendations developed with input from the invited participants. The goal of every resuscitation organization and resuscitation expert is to prevent premature cardiovascular death. When cardiac arrest or life-threatening emergencies occur, prompt and skillful response can make the difference between life and death and between intact survival and debilitation. This document summarizes the 2010 evidence evaluation of published science about the recognition and response to sudden life-threatening events, particularly sudden cardiac arrest and periarrest events in …