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01-12-2015 | Editorial
Post-resuscitation care: ERC–ESICM guidelines 2015
Authors:
Jerry P. Nolan, Alain Cariou
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 12/2015
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Excerpt
The intensive care treatment of cardiac arrest survivors has evolved considerably over the past 10 years. In 2005 the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Guidelines for Advanced Life Support included less than three pages of text on post-resuscitation care [
1]. Since 2005, the management of post-cardiac arrest patients has achieved a much higher profile within the specialty of critical care medicine, a fact that is reflected by the substantial increase in the number of studies published in this field. Although the ERC and the American Heart Association (AHA) both published post-resuscitation care guidelines in 2010 [
2,
3], this year, for the first time, the ERC has collaborated with the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) to produce European post-resuscitation care guidelines [
4]. …