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Survival of cardiac arrest continues to be very poor. In-hospital cardiac arrest has a survival to hospital discharge of 17,6% all rhythms. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has a worse | Survival of cardiac arrest continues to be very poor. In-hospital cardiac arrest has a survival to hospital discharge of 17,6% all rhythms. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has a worse survival with 10,7% survival to hospital discharge for all rhythms. Survival is dependent on the characteristics of the cardiac arrest (rhythm), on the patient’s medical history, and the time between the cardiac arrest en start of resuscitation. The introduction of the automated external defibrillator (AED) has dramatically increased survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims.<cite>ESC, Nolan1</cite> In this chapter we give an overview of basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS) based on the recommendation of the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2010. | ||
==Basic Life Support (BLS)== | ==Basic Life Support (BLS)== | ||