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Resuscitation, sudden cardiac, emergency cardiovascular care.in January 2005. The proceedings of this meeting provided material for regional consensus organizations to write their own resuscitation guidelines.The creation of ILCOR established a unique opportunity for international collaboration in the development of guidelines and training programs on resuscitation over the past fifteen years. A short summary of the important aspects and the progress of the organization, which has become the authoritative voice on the scientific consensus behind national and international resuscitation guidelines, is presented below.

In the last months, we have been experiencing moments of anguish and debate on sudden death, which is the first general cause of pre-hospital in our country, as well as in developed countries. Cardiovascular emergency, either pre-hospital or in-hospital, is much more than big investments in prevention, thrombolysis, interventionism and isolated defibrillation. Providing awareness and habilitation for physicians, non-physician healthcare professionals and lay people is a necessary duty while society. Recent deaths of football players and other athletes have placed cardiovascular emergency under distinction and created another reason for scientific investments, investments in continuous education, and financial investments in the area. Similarly, approximately 800 people, from different age ranges, who have not been shot and shown on TV, die every day in our country 1 . The most profitable discussions that can be absorbed from those events are not related to finding the guilty ones, as if there are any single guilty parties in any of those cases, we would have to judge the other 799 daily cases, which would be humanly unfeasible and without any results, as the main emphasis would be in the lives that could have been saved. We must plan measures in continuous education, propose investments and institute scientific protocols in the area.