Kids Save Lives - ERC position statement on school children education in CPR.: "Hands that help - Training children is training for life"

B W Böttiger; L L Bossaert; M Castrén; D Cimpoesu; M Georgiou; R Greif; M Grünfeld; A Lockey; C Lott; I Maconochie; R Melieste; K G Monsieurs; J P Nolan; G D Perkins; V Raffay; J Schlieber; F Semeraro; J Soar; A Truhlář; P Van de Voorde; J Wyllie; S Wingen; Board of European Resuscitation Council (ERC)

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.06.005

Kids Save Lives - ERC position statement on school children education in CPR.: "Hands that help - Training children is training for life"

Resuscitation. 2016 Aug:105:A1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.06.005. Epub 2016 Jun 22.

Authors

B W Böttiger¹, L L Bossaert², M Castrén³, D Cimpoesu⁴, M Georgiou⁵, R Greif⁶, M Grünfeld⁷, A Lockey⁸, C Lott⁹, I Maconochie¹⁰, R Melieste¹¹, K G Monsieurs¹², J P Nolan¹³, G D Perkins¹⁴, V Raffay¹¹, J Schlieber¹⁵, F Semeraro¹⁶, J Soar¹⁷, A Truhlář¹⁸, P Van de Voorde¹⁹, J Wyllie²⁰, S Wingen²¹; Board of European Resuscitation Council (ERC)

Affiliations

¹ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital and University of Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
² European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Emergency Medicine and Services, Helsinki University Hospital and Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; University of Medicine and Pharmacy Gr.T. Popa Iasi, Emergency Department - Emergency County Hospital Sf. Spiridon, Iasi, Romania.
⁵ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; American Medical Center Cyprus, Nicosia University Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁶ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Switzerland.
⁷ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Unit, Community Health Centre Kranj, Kranj, Slovenia.
⁸ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Emergency Medicine, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, Halifax, UK.
⁹ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Mainz, Germany.
¹⁰ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, Imperial College, London, UK.
¹¹ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium.
¹² European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Emergency Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Belgium.
¹³ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK.
¹⁴ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Warwick Medical School and Heart of England NHS Foundation, Warwick, UK.
¹⁵ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; AUVA Trauma Center Salzburg, Department of Anaesthesiology, Salzburg, Austria.
¹⁶ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna Italy.
¹⁷ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Southmead Hospital, Bristol UK.
¹⁸ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Emergency Medical Services of the Hradec Králové Region, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic; Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
¹⁹ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ghent, Belgium.
²⁰ European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Niel, Belgium; Department of Neonatology, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
²¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital and University of Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 27339096
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.06.005

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / education*
Child
Humans
Schools*