Part 1: Executive Summary

Authors:
  • MHMary Fran Hazinski
    Mary Fran Hazinski
  • RARichard Aickin
    Richard Aickin
  • FBFarhan Bhanji
    Farhan Bhanji
  • JBJohn E. Billi
    John E. Billi
  • CCClifton W. Callaway
    Clifton W. Callaway
  • MCMaaret Castren
    Maaret Castren
  • ACAllan R. de Caen
    Allan R. de Caen
  • JFJose Maria E. Ferrer
    Jose Maria E. Ferrer
  • LGLana M. Gent
    Lana M. Gent
  • RGRussell E. Griffin
    Russell E. Griffin
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Abstract
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) was formed in 1993 and currently includes representatives from the American Heart Association (AHA), the European Resuscitation Council, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation, the Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa, the InterAmerican Heart Foundation, and the Resuscitation Council of Asia. The ILCOR mission is to identify and review international science and information relevant to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC) and to offer consensus on treatment recommendations. ECC includes all responses necessary to treat sudden life-threatening events affecting the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, with a particular focus on sudden cardiac arrest. For this 2015 consensus publication, ILCOR also included first aid topics in its international review and consensus recommendations. In 1999, the AHA hosted the first ILCOR conference to evaluate resuscitation science and develop common resuscitation guidelines. The conference recommendations were published in the Guidelines 2000 for CPR and ECC .1 Since 2000, researchers from the ILCOR member councils have evaluated and reported their International Consensus on CPR and ECC Science With Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR) in 5-year cycles. The conclusions and recommendations of the 2010 CoSTR were published at the end of 2010.2,3 Since that time, ILCOR meetings and webinars have continued to identify and evaluate resuscitation science. The most recent ILCOR 2015 International Consensus Conference on CPR and ECC Science With Treatment Recommendations was held in Dallas in February 2015, and this publication contains the consensus science statements and treatment recommendations developed with input from the ILCOR task forces, the invited participants, and public comment. The Parts of this CoSTR publication include a summary of the ILCOR processes of evidence evaluation and management of potential or perceived conflicts of interest, …

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