The human innate and adaptive immune systems consist of effector cells producing
cytokines (interleukins, interferons, chemokines, and numerous other mediators). Usually, a …

Background: Basic life support education for schoolchildren has become a key initiative to
increase bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates. Our objective was to review the …

Abstract The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and the European Society of Intensive
Care Medicine (ESICM) have collaborated to produce these post-resuscitation care …

Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a complex multifactorial clinical syndrome with extremely high
mortality, develo** as a continuum, and progressing from the initial insult (underlying …

Increasing evidence supports a central role of the immune system in sepsis, but the current
view of how sepsis affects immunity, and vice versa, is still rudimentary. The European …

This executive summary provides the essential treatment algorithms for the resuscitation of
children and adults and highlights the main guideline changes since 2010. Detailed …

JP Nolan et al./Resuscitation 95 (2015) 202–222 203 from 39 countries reviewed thousands
of relevant, peer-reviewed publications to address 169 specific resuscitation questions, each …

One quarter of patients suffering from acute critical illness such as severe trauma, sepsis,
myocardial infarction (MI) or post cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) develop severe …

Successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest results in a post–cardiac arrest syndrome, which
can evolve in the days to weeks after return of sustained circulation. The components of post …

Objective Brain injury is well established as a cause of early mortality after out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest (OHCA), but postresuscitation shock also contributes to these deaths. This …