The Resuscitation Guidelines 2010 are published only in electronic format on this website.   The guidelines contain detailed information about emergency life support and deal with some of the issues of basic and advanced life support for adults, paediatrics and the newborn.   Also included are guidelines for the use of Automated External Defibrillators and other related topics.   The guidelines can be viewed on screen, or you can choose to print a hardcopy.   If you prefer to read a printed copy, you can help to reduce environmental impact by printing only those pages or sections you need.

Latest updates to the Guidelines

The 2010 Guidelines are the latest edition of the Resuscitation Guidelines.
The next formal review will be in preparation for the 2015 edition (or earlier if necessary).

All of the sections below are in Adobe PDF format. 
The software to read PDF files is available here:  

Section:	Author:
Front cover	---
Front matter, foreword, table of contents	---
Introduction	Jasmeet Soar Jerry Nolan
Summary of changes	Jerry Nolan Jasmeet Soar
Adult Basic Life Support	Anthony Handley Michael Colquhoun
The use of Automated External Defibrillators	Gavin Perkins Michael Colquhoun
Pre-hospital cardiac arrest	Fiona Jewkes Jerry Nolan
Prevention of in-hospital    cardiac arrest and decisions about    cardiopulmonary resuscitation	Jasmeet Soar Gary Smith
In-hospital resuscitation	Jasmeet Soar Robin Davies
Adult Advanced Life Support	Charles Deakin Jerry Nolan Gavin Perkins Andrew Lockey
Peri-arrest arrhythmias	David Pitcher Gavin Perkins
Paediatric Basic Life Support	Robert Bingham Ian Maconochie Sheila Simpson Fiona Jewkes
Paediatric Advanced Life Support	Robert Bingham Ian Maconochie Fiona Jewkes
Newborn Life Support	Sam Richmond Jonathan Wyllie
References	---
Appendix: Conflict of interest declaration	---

 
 
 
Latest updates to the guidelines
 

June 2011

The Peri-arrest arrhythmias chapter has been updated as follows: Page 84, Regular broad-complex tachardia: The last sentence of the first paragraph was deleted ("In a stable patient, if there is uncertainty about the source of the arrhythmia...")

The above change now appears in the individual guidelines chapter and in the single PDF document file (see below).
 
 
Guidelines as a single document file
 
The 2010 Resuscitation Guidelines are also available as a single PDF
document file (157 pages).
 
To download, right-click on the link below and select the option to Save Target as... or Save Link as... (depending on your web browser), then specify the location where you wish to save the file. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, this may take a little while to download.
 
      2010 Resuscitation Guidelines
 
 
Algorithms
 
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Posters
 
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