2021 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR)

Summary From the Basic Life Support; Advanced Life Support; Neonatal Life Support; Education, Implementation, and Teams; First Aid Task Forces; and the COVID-19 Working Group

• BLS new review of video-based dispatch systems and head-up CPR with updates to drowning reviews.
• ALS updated systematic review of early coronary angiography after ROSC, CPR and defibrillation in the prone patient.
• NLS systematic review of cord management at birth, devices for administering positive-pressure ventilation at birth, and family presence during neonatal resuscitation.
• EIT updated self-directed, digitally based BLS education and training in adults and children.
• First Aid systematic reviews of duration of cooling with water for thermal burns, exertion-related dehydration and rehydration, and pediatric tourniquet use by first aid providers.
• Covid-19 infection risk to rescuers from patients in cardiac arrest.