European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Paediatric Life Support

Patrick Van de Voorde; Nigel M Turner; Jana Djakow; Nieves de Lucas; Abel Martinez-Mejias; Dominique Biarent; Robert Bingham; Olivier Brissaud; Florian Hoffmann; Groa Bjork Johannesdottir; Torsten Lauritsen; Ian Maconochie

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.015

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Paediatric Life Support

Resuscitation. 2021 Apr:161:327-387. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.015. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine Ghent University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine UG, Ghent, Belgium; EMS Dispatch Center, East & West Flanders, Federal Department of Health, Belgium. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Paediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands.
³ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, NH Hospital, Hořovice, Czech Republic; Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Brno, Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁴ SAMUR - Protección Civil, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Department of Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Hospital de Terassa, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Paediatric Intensive Care & Emergency Department, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
⁷ Hon. Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.
⁸ Réanimation et Surveillance Continue Pédiatriques et Néonatales, CHU Pellegrin - Hôpital des Enfants de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
⁹ Paediatric Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
¹⁰ Paediatric gastroenterology, Akureyri Hospital, Akureyri, Iceland.
¹¹ Paediatric Anaesthesia, The Juliane Marie Centre, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹² Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare Trust NHS, Faculty of Medicine Imperial College, London, UK.

PMID: 33773830
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.015

Abstract

These European Resuscitation Council Paediatric Life Support (PLS) guidelines, are based on the 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Science with Treatment Recommendations. This section provides guidelines on the management of critically ill infants and children, before, during and after cardiac arrest.

Keywords: Advanced life support; Bag-mask ventilation; Basic life support; CPR; Cardiac arrest; Circulatory failure; Defibrillation; Infant; Oxygen; Paediatric; Pediatric; Respiratory failure; Resuscitation child; Shock.

MeSH terms

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation*
Child
Electric Countershock
Heart Arrest* / therapy
Humans
Infant