Describe the management of cardiac arrest.
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Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS): In the event of cardiac arrest, the immediate implementation of ACLS guidelines is indicated. Widespread interest in improving rates of public ACLS training with a special emphasis on use of early defibrillation by public service personnel (eg, police, fire, airline attendants) exists. Through these measures, the greatest public health benefits can be achieved in the fight against sudden death. In 2010, the American Heart Association (AHA) published new Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science. [25]
The 2009 American Heart Association Cardiac Arrest Survival Summit released consensus recommendations for implementation strategies to optimize the care of patients with out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest (OHCA). [26] These recommendations included collection of national data on OHCA and local culture changes because incomplete implementation of existing standards was seen as the limiting problem.