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The main changes in the BLS guidelines have been made to reflect the importance placed on chest compression, particularly good quality compressions, and to attempt to reduce the number and duration of pauses in chest compression:

When obtaining help, ask for an automated external defibrillator (AED), if one is available.
Compress the chest to a depth of 5-6 cm and at a rate of 100-120 per min.
Give each rescue breath over 1 second rather than 2.
Do not stop to check the victim or discontinue CPR unless the victim starts to show signs of regaining consciousness, such as coughing, opening his eyes, speaking, or moving purposefully AND starts to breathe normally.

Further information can be found at www.Resus.org.uk

New European Resuscitation Guidelines!
The ERC has published the new Guidelines for Resuscitation.

Download the Full Guidelines, the Executive Summary, or watch the video's of the lead authors, explaining the major changes, here for free. There are also posters in different languages. (Catalan, Croatian, Danish, English, Greek, Icelandic, Russian ,Spanish and more to come)

The Guidelines are published online, both as a PDF (if you want to print them) and as an Article In Motion. The latter, interactive format provides easy navigation in the guidelines and makes it easy to search specific items.

Printed Guidelines, Summary Booklets and posters are available via our webshop.