Society guideline links: Cardiac arrest in adults

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Basic and advanced cardiac life support in adults".)

International

●International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR): International consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care science with treatment recommendations (2022)

•Advanced life support

•Basic life support

●Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) and Heart Rhythm Society (HRS): Expert consensus statement on the investigation of decedents with sudden unexplained death and patients with sudden cardiac arrest, and of their families (2020)

●American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/HRS: Guideline for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death (2017)

Canada

●Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS)/Canadian Cardiovascular Critical Care Society (CANCARE)/Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology (CAIC-ACCI): Position statement on the optimal care of the postarrest patient (2016)

●Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS), Canadian Neurocritical Care Society (CNCCS), and Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG): Canadian guidelines for the use of targeted temperature management (therapeutic hypothermia) after cardiac arrest (2016)

United States

●American Heart Association (AHA): Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care – Adult basic and advanced life support (2020)

●Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI): Expert consensus statement on out of hospital cardiac arrest (2020)

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients, 2017 (published 2018)

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Guidelines for the use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in the ED for cardiac arrest (2017)

●AHA/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS): Guideline for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death (2017)

●AHA: Scientific statement on cardiac arrest in pregnancy (2015)

●The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP): Consensus statement on the management of cardiac arrest in pregnancy (2014)

●AHA: Strategies for improving survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States – Consensus recommendations (2013)

Europe

●European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines on temperature control after cardiac arrest in adults (2022)

●ERC: Guidelines for resuscitation (2021)

•Basic life support

•Adult advanced life support

•Cardiac arrest in special circumstances

•Post-resuscitation care

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients, 2017 (published 2018)

●European Society of Cardiology (ESC): Clinical practice guidelines on ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death (2015)

●European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)/Stent for Life (SFL): Consensus statement on invasive coronary treatment strategies for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (2014)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on temperature control to improve neurological outcomes after cardiac arrest (2024)

●Resuscitation Council (UK): Resuscitation guidelines (2021)

•Adult basic life support

•Adult advanced life support

•Special circumstances

•Post-resuscitation care

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC): The ARC guidelines

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC): Resuscitation guidelines (2020)