Abstract These European Resuscitation Council Ethics guidelines provide evidence-based
recommendations for the ethical, routine practice of resuscitation and end-of-life care of …

Aim The sudden and unexpected cardiac arrest of a family member can be a grief-filled and
life-altering event. Every year many hundreds of thousands of families experience the …

Purpose We aimed to collect the available evidence on outcome regarding survival and
quality of life after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) following both in-hospital cardiac …

Aim This systematic review explored how non-medical factors influence the prehospital
resuscitation providers' decisions whether or not to resuscitate adult patients with cardiac …

Background Frailty is a clinical expression of adverse ageing which could be a valuable
predictor of outcomes from cardiac arrest. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate …

Aim To evaluate the test accuracy of pre-arrest clinical decision tools for in-hospital cardiac
arrest survival outcomes. Methods We searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Library …

Background Intensive care unit (ICU) patients age 90 years or older represent a growing
subgroup and place a huge financial burden on health care resources despite the benefit …

Zusammenfassung Diese Ethikleitlinien des Europäischen Rats für Wiederbelebung
enthalten evidenzbasierte Empfehlungen für die ethische, routinemäßige Praxis der …

Background During out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) paramedics must make decisions
to commence, continue, terminate or withhold resuscitation. These decisions are known to …

Background The decision to initiate or continue advanced life support (ALS) in out-of-
hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) could be difficult due to the lack of information and contextual …