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2025 Highlights

Basic Life Support Highlights

  • Ease of Access to Stored AEDs
  • Continuous Chest Compression CPR Versus Standard CPR for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
  • Continuous Chest Compression CPR Versus Standard CPR for EMS
  • Unintentional Injury from CPR to Persons Not in Cardiac Arrest
  • Pad Size and Placement in Infants and Children
  • CPR in Obese Adults and Children

Advanced Life Support Highlights

  • Head-Up CPR
  • Intravenous Versus Intraosseous Administration of Drugs During Cardiac Arrest
  • Opioid-Specific Advanced Life Support Therapies for Cardiac Arrest
  • Resuscitation of Patients with Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support and Acutely Altered Perfusion or Cardiac Arrest

Pediatric Advanced Life Support Highlights

  • Pulse Check Accuracy in Infants and Children During Resuscitation
  • Post-ROSC Blood Pressure Targets After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
  • Pad Size and Placement in Infants and Children
  • Pharmacologic Interventions for Severe Hyperkalemia with Cardiac Arrest
  • Management of Bradycardia with Hemodynamic Compromise
  • Resuscitation of Patients with Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support and Acutely Altered Perfusion or Cardiac Arrest

Neonatal Advanced Life Support Highlights

  • Cord Management for Non-Vigorous Term and Late Preterm Newborns
  • Use of Supraglottic Airways During Chest Compressions
  • Initial Oxygen Concentration for Preterm Newborn Resuscitation

Resuscitation Education Science Highlights

  • CPR Coaching During Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
  • Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Termination of Resuscitation Rules
  • CPR Feedback Device Use in Resuscitation Training

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References 

Basic Life Support

Advanced Life Support

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Neonatal Advanced Life Support

Resuscitation Education Science