• Department of Emergency Medicine, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University /Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Ministry of Education; Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
LI Xihong, Email: hilixihong@163.com
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In November 2017, the American Heart Association updated the pediatric basic life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) quality. The new guidelines focused on the clinical value of chest compression-only CPR versus CPR using chest compressions with rescue breaths in children, rather than a comprehensive revision of the 2015 edition guidelines. The Pediatric Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation updated part content of the guidelines according to the continuous evidence review process. Guidelines recommend CPR using chest compressions with rescue breaths should be provided for infants and children with cardiac arrest. Bystanders provide chest compressions if they are unwilling or unable to deliver rescue breaths. This article mainly interprets the updated content.

Citation: LI Xihong, ZHOU Yan. The interpretation of the 2017 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care: Pediatric Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality. West China Medical Journal, 2017, 32(11): 1699-1701. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201711114 Copy