New basic life support guidelines for the management of adult and paediatric cardiopulmonary arrest have recently been recommended by the Resuscitation Council UK. Greater emphasis has been given to ...

Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support, but may be less confident with basic life support skills that are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This article, ...

Respiratory distress is a common symptom of patients transported to hospitals by emergency medical services (EMS) personnel. The benefit of advanced life support for such patients has not been ...