Farhan Bhanji

TL;DR: The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Advanced Life Support (ALS) Task Force performed detailed systematic reviews based on the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and using the methodological approach proposed by the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group.

TL;DR: The goal of therapy for bradycardia or tachycardia is to rapidly identify and treat patients who are hemodynamically unstable or symptomatic due to the arrhythmia.

TL;DR: This Executive Summary is to provide an overview of the new or revised recommendations contained in the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update, and focuses on topics with significant new science or ongoing controversy.

TL;DR: This consensus statement addresses the following key areas of CPR quality for the trained rescuer: metrics of CPR performance; monitoring, feedback, and integration of the patient's response to CPR; team-level logistics to ensure performance of high-quality CPR; and continuous quality improvement on provider, team, and systems levels.

TL;DR: Recommendations for reporting out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and a standard reporting template is recommended to promote standardized reporting that facilitates reporting of the bystander-witnessed, shockable rhythm as a measure of emergency medical services system efficacy.