Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support but may be less confident with paediatric basic life support skills, which are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

This article, the third of a four-part series, explores paediatric basic life support. Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support but may be less confident with paediatric ...

New basic life support guidelines for the management of adult and paediatric cardiopulmonary arrest have recently been recommended by the Resuscitation Council UK. Greater emphasis has been given to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare — about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S. — the survival rate when it happens outside of a hospital is estimated to ...

DALLAS and ITASCA, IL, Oct. 23, 2025 — The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association (the Association), a relentless force changing the future of health for everyone everywhere ...

UC San Diego medical student Brennan Marsh-Armstrong performs CPR on a test dummy at the UCSD School of Medicine Simulation Training Center on December 21, 2022. If someone you know stopped breathing, ...

The AHA's PALS course reflects the science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). The PALS Provider Course aims to improve ...

The Department of Pediatrics at Sassoon General Hospital (SGH), in association with the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP), Pune branch, conducted a two-day workshop on basic life support (BLS) and ...