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AHA and Red Cross Life Support Certifications Should Both Be Accepted

ACEP Now

For decades, only one major organization—the American Heart Association (AHA)—provided standardized training and certifications in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS). In 2015, it introduced Basic Life Support (BLS) training and certification for EMS personnel.

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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

What is the impact of dispatch-assisted CPR instructions on cardiac arrests from noncardiac causes such as drowning, trauma, or asphyxia in adult and pediatric patients? In the 2015 CoSTR, this was cited as a strong recommendation but based on very low-quality evidence.19,20 " [AHA] "2017 Recommendation—Updated 1.

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Initiation of closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation basic life support. Initiation of closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation basic life support. March 27, 2015. In Advances in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (pp. Springer New York. A personal history. A personal history. Elam MD, 1918–1995.