European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015

Resuscitation - Tập 95 - Trang 100-147 - 2015

Jasmeet Soar¹, Jerry P. Nolan^2,3, Bernd W. Böttiger⁴, Gavin D. Perkins^5,6, Carsten Lott⁷, Pierre Carli⁸, Tommaso Pellis⁹, Claudio Sandroni¹⁰, Markus B. Skrifvars¹¹, Gary B. Smith¹², Kjetil Sunde^13,14, Charles D. Deakin¹⁵, Rudolph W. Koster¹⁶, Koenraad G. Monsieurs^17,18, Νικόλαος Νικολάου¹⁹

¹Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

²Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK

³School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

⁴Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Germany

⁵Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK

⁶Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

⁷Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

⁸SAMU de Paris, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Necker University Hospital, Paris, France

⁹Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Medical Service, Santa Maria degli Angeli Hospital, Pordenone, Italy

¹⁰Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy

¹¹Division of Intensive Care, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital and Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland

¹²Centre of Postgraduate Medical Research & Education, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK

¹³Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

¹⁴Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

¹⁵Cardiac Anaesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care, NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK

¹⁶Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

¹⁷Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

¹⁸Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

¹⁹Cardiology Department, Konstantopouleio General Hospital, Athens, Greece

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