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Volume 1. No 1. (English ed.) September 18, 2017

Japan Resuscitation Council
www.japanresuscitationcouncil.org/jrc-newsletter/

Contents
The Launch of the JRC Online Journal in English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hiroshi Nonogi , President of the Japan Resuscitation Council（Shizuoka General Hospital ）Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Tetsuya Sakamoto, Vice-President of the Japan Resuscitation Council（Teikyo University）

History of the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) from its Inception to its Fifteenthyear Anniversary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Kazuo Okada, Emeritus President of the Japan Resuscitation Council

Welcome Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Dr. Tzong-Luen Wang, President of the Resuscitation Council of Asia (RCA)

Welcome to the 10th Japan Resuscitation Science Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Shigeharu Hosono, Executive Chairperson of 10th Japan Resuscitation Science Symposium(Nihon University School of Medicine)

Program of the 10th Japan Resuscitation Science Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
History of the JRC and Resuscitation Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Hiroshi Nonogi, President of the Japan Resuscitation Council（Shizuoka General Hospital ）Editorial Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Masao Nagayama, Secretary-General of the Japan Resuscitation Council(International University of Health and Welfare School of Medicine)the Editorial Board＜ Editor in chief ＞
Hiroshi Nonogi （Shizuoka General Hospital ）＜ Members of editorial board ＞
Migaku Kikuchi （Dokkyo Medical University Hospital）
Toshiki Sera

（Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital）

Satoshi Takeda（Jikei University School of Medicine）

Masao Nagayama (International University of Health and Welfare School of Medicine）

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Volume 1. No 1. (English ed.). p. 1, 2017

The Launch of the JRC Online Journal
in English
Hiroshi Nonogi MD, PhD., FAHA, FJCC, FJCA, FJRC
President of the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC),
Shizuoka General Hospital

As is well known, the history of resuscitation in Japan is long and rich, especially in theﬁelds of basic and clinical science.
To serve as a window onto the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR),
the ﬁrst Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) meeting was held at the Gakushikaikan on January
18, 2002. It was attended by twelve interdisciplinary organizations working in the ﬁelds ofresuscitation and three organizations working in related subspecialties. This day was chosen
to mark the establishment of the JRC. In 2015, the JRC took a signiﬁcant step forward andbecame a general incorporated association. This year, the JRC is marking the 15th anniversaryof its founding. To commemorate this occasion, the JRC has enhanced its website byfeaturing the JRC Online Journal, the organizationʼs public relations magazine. The ﬁrst issue
was published on the JRC website and as a booklet to accompany the 10th J-ReSS (JapanResuscitation Science Symposium: President Takeo Itabashi, Japan Society of Perinatal andNeonatal Medicine) on July 17th, 2017.
ILCOR continues to develop its strategy for creating CoSTR (the consensus on CPR andthe science of emergency cardiovascular care, with treatment recommendations). Everyﬁve years, the strategy is revised, based on the annual disclosure of important topics. We
hope that this online journal will be valued for quickly delivering resuscitation updates andguidelines to healthcare providers and citizens in Japan.
Last year, the ﬁrst general guidelines, “The RCAʼs Adult BLS Algorithm for Lay Rescuers”
were published by the Resuscitation Council of Asia (RCA). The RCA is scheduled to create
guidelines on acute coronary syndrome this year. To promote international partnerships andbetter global understanding of the JRC, we will publish an English version of this journal.
In the near future, we are planning to expand this online journal to include peer-reviewed
original articles and reviews related to every area of resuscitation. We hope it will become an
important hub and driving force in our resuscitation activities, disseminating information on
domestic and global resuscitation science. On behalf of the JRC, we would like to ask for the
support of many readers.

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Volume 1. No 1. (English ed.). p. 2 , 2017

Foreword
Tetsuya Sakamoto, MD, PhD.
Vice-President of the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC),
Director, Teikyo University Hospital

As a Vice-President of the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC), I would like to express mygratitude for the publication of the JRC Online Journal. I hope that this journal will be avaluable information source for our member societies and associations.
On October 2, 2014, the JRC was established as a general incorporated association by theJapanese Resuscitation Council, which had previously been an unincorporated association. Its
purpose is to promote progress and the development of emergency resuscitation science byconducting research, exchanging knowledge, and collaborating with related groups inside andoutside Japan on the science and practical applications of emergency resuscitation science.
We hope that this body will continue to deliver resuscitation education, while helping tocreate a safe and secure life for all citizens.
The regular members of the JRC are academic and medical organizations at the centerof research, education and practical resuscitation science in Japan. The Japanese Society of
Intensive Care Medicine, Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists, Japanese Association for
Acute Medicine, Japanese Circulation Society, and Japan Society of Perinatal and Neonatal
Medicine are among the 122 organizations working in the area of emergency resuscitation.
Members of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences recommend Directors for the JRC.
In addition, the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine, Japanese Society of Emergency
Pediatrics, Japan Society on Neurological Emergencies and Critical Care, Japan PediatricSociety, and Japanese Society of Reanimatology have set up working groups to discuss the
publication of the JRC Guidelines 2015, making very important contributions.
The JRC, a general public corporation of great public interest, must operate with greattransparency in its relationship with each organization and company. I share the duties ofVice-President, and am happy to accept this management responsibility. We hope that you
will continue to support the JRC in the future. Thank you for your consideration.

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Volume 1. No 1. (English ed.). pp. 3-4, 2017

History of the Japan Resuscitation Council(JRC) from its Inception to its Fifteenth-year
Anniversary
Kazuo Okada MD, PhD.
Emeritus President of the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC)
I am deeply impressed that the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) has reached its 15th anniversary.
Let me explain the steps that led to this commemorative year. First, we should remember ProfessorPeter Safar, the pioneering anesthesiologist whose “ABC method” allowed citizens and healthcare
providers to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to cardiac-arrested people. In 1960, Safar, Judeand Knickerbocker developed CPR, which combined mouth-to-mouth breathing, chest compression, anddeﬁbrillation. In Japan, the Japanese Red Cross was the only organization devoted to CPR training for thegeneral public after World War II. At that point, the ABC Method had not been applied since the Second
World War. The American Heart Association (AHA) was eager to establish CPR training, not only for
medical professionals, but also for ordinary citizens. In 1974 the AHA published new ʻCPR Standardsʼ,revising them every 6 years. After 1992, the AHA changed the title of this document to ʻCPR Guidelinesʼ.
These had been decided beforehand to publishing in 1998. However, the International Liaison Committee
on Resuscitation(ILCOR) joined to help revise the new version, this publication was prolonged from 1998 to2000 and since then launched many versions of International and Regional Guidelines worldwide.
Japanʼs scientific academic societies had no resuscitation textbooks, as they lacked the international
communications needed to develop and edit these. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare(MHLW) was anxious to end Japanʼs isolation from the world and to share information on CPR. Prior
to 1997, several Japanese scientific societies were still preparing their own manuscripts independently,
without collaboration. In 1998, we were invited to attend the AHA Meeting, where the concept of
publishing CPR Guidelines was the main subject. Delegates from many countries were invited to Dallas,
and we were not sure who should represent Japan at this meeting. The Japan Foundation for Emergency
Medicine was the only organization overseen by MHLW. Its President, Toshifumi Otsuka, did not want the
Association to simply adopt foreign guidelines̶given its government aﬃliation, he felt that the Association
should not be influenced by the policies of foreign countries. President Otsuka asked me, Professor
Kazuo Okada, to select the delegate from Japan. He also asked the JRC to represent the views of Japanʼsvarious scientific societies. He emphasized that the new organization, “the JRC,” could become a true
representative of Japan.
Guidelines; we were very happy to meet other doctors from Asia there. After the meeting, we continued
to discuss and negotiate the founding of Resuscitation Council of Asia (RCA). On January 18, 2002, the JRC
announced the establishment of this new organization, which were consisted of twelve medical associations,
including the Japanese Circulation Society, the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, and the JapaneseSociety of Anesthesiologists. Three aﬃliated members, including the Japanese Red Cross, assembled for
the Japan Resuscitation Council (from 1998 to 2000). Thus, I became a founding member of the JRC.

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In 2000, I was invited to attend the ILCOR General Assembly (GA) and the European Resuscitation
Council (ERC) Symposium in Belgium, as an observer. Interesting topics were presented and thediscussions were exciting for a first-time participant. My good friends Professor Becker and Professor
Idris were also invited to this meeting. In 2001, the GA and ILCOR Symposium were held in the medieval
Utstein Abbey. In the Assembly, where Japan was an observer, the topic of Japanʼs membership of
ILCOR was raised. It was agreed that new oﬃcial members would be chosen at the 2002 ILCOR meetingin Melbourne.
In 2002, the ILCOR GA was held in Melbourne, where Japanʼs request to become an oﬃcial member of
ILCOR was discussed. As ILCOR had no experience of accepting new member countries, its constitution
was changed to stipulate that, “regional organizations, rather than individual countries, can be members of
ILCOR.” The Co-Chairs, Professor Montgomery and Professor Nolan, supported Japanʼs bid to become anoﬃcial member. We made a campaign speech, having received the requisite documents beforehand. The
discussion continued for an hour and thirty minutes, after which both Co-Chairs invited me to the roomand explained that Japanʼs membership had unfortunately not been accepted because the constitution had
been changed. They encouraged me to organize Asian Resuscitation Council (later, the RCA as Australian
Resuscitation Council already existed) and to apply to ILCOR again.
In 2003, the ILCOR Meeting was held in Budapest. In 2004, ILCOR meetings were held in Johannesburg
and Florence to speed up preparations for CoSTR 2005. Fortunately, in 2005, Professor Hiroshi Noguchi
made an enthusiastic eﬀort to establish the RCA, inviting delegates from Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, andJapan. He arranged an Asian Resuscitation Symposium and called the RCAʼs first General Assembly.
A ceremony was held to proudly establish the RCA, which quickly wrote a Constitution and appointed
Committee members.
At the AHA meeting, we reported that the RCA had been established. Its headquarters were in theoﬃce of the Japan Research Promotion Society for Cardiovascular Diseases, through the generosity of theJapanese Circulation Society. In 2006, the ILCOR Meeting was held in Stavanger, Norway; the question of
accepting new members was discussed again. It was clear from the enthusiastic applause that the RCA
would be welcomed and invited to become an oﬃcial member of ILCOR.
Since 2006, the JRC has sent delegates to the ILCOR and Guideline-preparation meetings every year. In
2009, the JRC (in collaboration with the RCA) successfully organized the ILCOR Symposium and CoSTR
Meeting in Osaka, Japan. We also helped to prepare for the 2010 CoSTR meeting, and to edit the JRC
Guidelines in collaboration with a wide range of scientiﬁc societies in Japan. In recent years, the JRC has
become a stronger, more oﬃcial body. It has expanded activities and published its 2015 JRC Guidelines.
Then JRC has already started to prepare the 2020 guidelines, using the GRADE method. This is asummary of JRC activities between 2000 and 2015.

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Volume 1. No 1. (English ed.). p. 5 , 2017

Welcome Message

Tzong-Luen Wang, MD, PhD., FESC, FACC
President. Resuscitation Council of Asia (RCA)

Dear members and colleagues,
On behalf of the Resuscitation Council of Asia (RCA), it is my greatest honor to invite you
to join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of RCA.
RCA has been founded by Japan. Singapore, Korea and Taiwan in 2006. In the past decade,we have many new partners including Thailand, Philippine, Malaysia and Hong Kong toattend RCA to promote Asian collaboration in resuscitation science. There are more andmore experts from RCA to attend International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR)
task forces to complete the revision and updating of resuscitation guidelines in 2010 andin 2015. We have also recently established the ﬁrst RCA version of adult basic life support
algorithm. All of these are honorable achievements contributing from distinguished leadershipof the presidents, Professor Okada and Professor Lim, as well as great efforts of all RCA
members. It's my pleasure and privilege to appreciate the success created by our honorable
friends of RCA.
In the next ten years, we will be more engaged in international collaboration such as dataregistry, RCA advanced life support guideline built-up, promotion of resuscitation training andeducation, and requirements of international training centers. As ILCOR is changing its policy
and strategies in the process of evidence review in task forces, we'll be more actively inthe whole process of strategy establishment, evidence review, guidelines build-up, and otherimportant tasks to maintain RCA the leading role in the world. We do right thing, and also dothing right. Best wishes to RCA.

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Volume 1. No 1. (English ed.). p. 6 , 2017

Welcome to the 10th Japan Resuscitation
Science Symposium
Shigeharu Hosono MD, PhD
Executive Chairperson of the 10th Japan Resuscitation Science Symposium
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health,
Nihon University School of Medicine

Japan Society of Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine will hold the 10th Japan Resuscitation
Science Symposium in Yokohama city on July 17 2017. This year of 2017 is memorial year
because The Japan Resuscitation Council was established 15 years ago. Japan Society of
Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine works to improve the level of both medical care and medical
science related to mothers, fetuses, and babies.
In July 2007, the Japan Society of Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine launched the Neonatal
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (NCPR) program to ensure that all staﬀ involved in perinatal
and neonatal medicine will be proficient in the practice of neonatal cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) in accordance with the guidelines of the Consensus on Science with
Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR) published by the International Liaison Committee on
Resuscitation and personnel capable of initiating resuscitation should attend every delivery.
At least one such person should be responsible solely for care of the neonate. We joined theJapan Resuscitation Council in 2007 and have taken as one of the executive board members
from 2015. Neonatal cardio-pulmonary resuscitation committee established the Neonatal
cardio-pulmonary resuscitation guideline as a part of 2015 Resuscitation Guidelines of theJapan Resuscitation Council based on the CoSTR of the International Resuscitation Council
and manage the workshops based on the guidelines.
Main theme in this symposium is “The developing resuscitation science throughcollaboration”. We organize two symposiums and a special lecture. The title of ﬁrst one of thesymposium is "Critical care of mothers". We expect to discuss the management of maternal
life support based on the special situation of pregnant women. The second topic is "Tasks
of Guidelines 2020". We hope to announce the challenges in each area toward the revision of2020 and discuss them to solve it.
Special lecture entitled "How has Neonatal Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation :NCPRdevelopedin Japan ?" by professor Masanori Tamura. Professor Tamura was one of the neonatal task
force members of International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and developed
CoSTOR. Moreover, he created the system of Newborn Resuscitation Act (NCPR) andcontributed a lot to spread business that began in July 2007.
We look forward to the participation of many of you and active discussion.
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Program of the 10th Japan Resuscitation Science Symposium
9:00 9:05

Opening remarks Kazuo Itabashi (President of the 10th Japan Resuscitation Science Symposium. Showa University School of Medicine)

9:05~9:15

Foreword from the President of the JRC

9:15~11:45

Symposium 1

Hiroshi Nonogi (President of JRC, Shizuoka General Hospital)“Critical care of mothers”

Co-Chairs: Tomoaki IKEDA(Mie Univ.), Gen ISHIKAWA(Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hosp.)

Junichi Hasegawa（St. Marianna University School of Medicine）
Maternal death in Japan
Katsuo Terui (Saitama Medical Center)
Response to cardiac arrest of pregnant women

Cardiac arrest in pregnancy from the view point of emergency medicine
Atsushi Sakurai (Nihon University School of Medicine）

The diﬀerence between Japanese consensus and the world consensuses about maternal cardiac arrest
Tomoyuki Yamashita（Japanese Red Cross Medical Center）

The current situation of perimortem cesarean delivery in Japan
Jun Murotsuki（Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Miyagi Children's Hospital）

J-CIMELS：Background of establishment and current activity status
Akihiko Sekizawa (Showa University School of Medicine)＜ Questions and Answers（11：15 〜 11：45）＞

11:45~12:00

Tea break

12:00~13:00

Chair: Satoshi Ibara (Kagoshima City Hosp.)
Co-hosted by Masimo Japan Co., Ltd.
Luncheon Seminar
Importance of respiratory rate in perinatal analgesia 〜 Noninvasive Acoustic Respiration Rate

Monitoring : RRa® Takayasu Kakinuma (Tokyo Medical University)
Noninvasive monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit: needs and possibilities
Naoki Ito (Teikyo University)

13:00~13:15

Tea break

13:15~14:00

Special lecture

How has Neonatal Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation :NCPRdeveloped in Japan ?

14:15~17:15

Symposium 2“Tasks of Guidelines 2020”

Chair:

Satoshi Ibara (Kagoshima City Hosp.)

Presenter: Masanori Tamura（Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University）

Program Directors: Hiroshi Nonogi (Shizuoka General Hospital) / Shigeharu Hosono (Nihon University School of Medicine)

BLS (Basic life support)

Chair：Tetsuya Sakamoto (Teikyo University)
Presenter：Tetsuo Hatanaka (Emergency Life-Saving Technique Academy of Kyushu)

ALS (Advanced life support)

Chair: Naoto Morimura (Tokyo University)
Presenter: Shunji Kasaoka (Kumamoto University)

NCPR (Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)

Chair: Shigeharu Hosono (Nihon University School of Medicine)
Presenter: Takahiro Sugiura (Toyohashi Municipal Hospital)

PLS (Pediatric life support)

Chair: Hiroyuki Matsuura (Toho University)
Presenter: Hiroshi Kurosawa (Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Childrenʼs Hospital)＜ Poster session（15：20 〜 15：50）＞

ACS (Acute coronary syndrome)

Chair: Yoshio Tahara (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center)

NR (Neuroresuscitation)

Chair: Masao Nagayama (International University of Health and Welfare School of Medicine)

FA (First aid)

Chair: Keiichi Kato (Japanese Red Cross Medical Center)

EIT (Education, implementation, and teams)

Chair: Taku Iwami (Kyoto University)

Presenter: Migaku Kikuchi (Dokkyo Medical University Hospital)
Presenter: Shoji Yokobori（Nippon Medical School Hospital）
Presenter: Seizan Tanabe（Emergency Life-Saving Technique Academy of Tokyo）
Presenter: Satoshi Takeda（Jikei University School of Medicine）＜ Questions and Answers（16：55 〜 17：15）＞

17:15~17:25

JRC Okada Award Ceremony

17:25~17:30

Closing remarks

Kazuo Okada（Emeritus President of JRC）

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Volume 1. No 1. (English ed.). pp. 8-11, 2017

History of the Japan Resuscitation Council
and Resuscitation Guidelines
Hiroshi Nonogi MD, PhD, FAHA, FJCC, FJCA, FJRC
President of the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC),
Shizuoka General Hospital

1.

ILCOR and Establishment of JRC

Figure 1-1). 2017 is the year of commemoration of the
15th anniversary since establishment of JRC.

ɹParticipation from Japan to the International Liaison

In 2015, JRC became a general incorporated

Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) founded in 1992,

association, composed of 23 organizations. RCA

was established in 2006 by the Japan Resuscitation

composed of 7 countries including Japan (Figure 1-2).

Council (JRC) founded in 2002, and the Resuscitation

The background of international guidelines and JRC

Council of Asia (RCA) founded in 2005 (upper row in

guidelines is shown in the bottom row. Since 1974,
the American Heart Association (AHA) periodicallypublished resuscitation guidelines every six years
and was utilized in many countries. Thereafter,
ILCOR was established, and international guidelines
were prepared in 2000 and Consensus on CPR andemergency cardiovascular care science with treatment
recommendations (CoSTR) was announced in 2005 by
ILCOR. ILCOR member countries decided to prepare
each guideline based on CoSTR. Since 2010, JRC has
joined as a member of the RCA, participated as an
official member in making CoSTR, and created JRC
Resuscitation Guidelines 2010 and 2015.

Figure １-1

Since 2017, it was transformed into a strategy

Figure1-2

Figure1-3

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Volume 1. No 1. (English ed.) 2017that evidence evaluation and CoSTR creation areout so far (Figure 2-1, 2-2). Also, Professor James Judecarried out for each selected topic from every five-with the cardiovascular group of the Johns Hopkins

year renewal. ILCOR adopted the GRADE (Grading

University established closed chest compression andof Recommendations Assessment, Development anddeﬁbrillation (Figure 2-3).

Evaluation) system, an international guideline creation

ɹFour years later in 1964, the introduction of CPR

method, from CoSTR2015.

by Professor Kazuo Okada, former chairman of the2.

History of cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR)

Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC), was implemented in
preparation for the Tokyo Olympics (Figure 2-4).
ɹAfter that, the progress of CPR in Japan has beenɹCurrent CPR was established in 1960 by Professor

slow, but after ILCOR 2000 international guidelines,

Peter Safar at the Johns Hopkins University that thethe resuscitation science activities became more

mouth-to-mouth ventilation was more effective than

productive and CPR became popular as a result of thethe various breathing methods that have been carriedestablishment of JRC.

Figure2-1

Figure2-3

Figure2-2

Figure2-4

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3.

Creating Resuscitation Guidelines

ɹCoSTR 2015 by ILCOR was created over three years
using the GRADE system. Five Task Force members

However, there was a disadvantage such as burdenof Task Force and the delayed reﬂection of evidence
during enormous tasks.
In order to solve this problem, the work was divided
into systematic review and evaluation of the evidence.

from JRC contributed.
In 2017, seven Task Force members were elected

In addition, continuous evidence evaluation and anfrom each council to create a new CoSTR, and fiveannual CoSTR announcement will be held (Fig. 3-2).

Systematic Reviewers and their candidates were

It was decided to prepare guidelines of each Council

elected (Fig. 3-1).

accordingly (Fig. 3-3).

ILCOR has prepared CoSTR every five years and

The JRC is planning to establish a guidelines paneleach council prepared their own guidelines based on

to consider guideline recommendations in 2017-2020

CoSTR.

(Figure 3-4).

Figure3-1

Figure3-3

Figure3-2

Figure3-4

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4.

Standardization and training of

4-1 〜 4-4).
It is a course that allows trainees to learn

intensive care after return of spontaneous
circulation (ROSC)

procedures necessary for intensive care after ROSC.

ɹIntensive care after ROSC in cardiac arrest requires

2: EEG monitoring necessary for neurocritical care,interdisciplinary team approach and collaborationof cardiologist, emergency physicians, and intensive
care physicians and so on. Team training andimplementation manual are necessary for quick
and safe team medical care. Therefore, in order todisseminate the team medical care, a training manualwas published from Cardiovascular Emergency
Committee of the Japanese Circulation Society and theJapan Resuscitation Council, and practical off-the-job
training courses after ROSC were carried out (Figure

Session 1: various airway securing methods, Session
Session 3: neurological examinations, Session 4:
percutaneous cardiopulmonary support (PCPS) using
simulation circuit to learn puncturing the vessels,cannulation and priming, Session 5: various equipmentof target temperature management, Session 6: Team
resuscitation for VF and post-ROSC care, Session 7:
Simulation of ECPR and treatment after ROSC in
persistent cases of VF.
We hold regular one-day training course.
(http://www.j-circ.or.jp/topics/20170320̲pcas.htm).

Figure4-1

Figure4-3

Figure4-2

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Editorial Note
It is a great pleasure for us at the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) to launch the JRC
Newsletter English Edition on our 15th anniversary. Here, our vision for this newsletter
will be brieﬂy introduced.
The JRC is an interdisciplinary academic society of high public interest for the
improvement of clinical and scientific affairs on cardiopulmonary and cerebral
resuscitation. The enthusiastic activity, leadership, and passion of Dr. Kazuo Okada,
the founding president and now the emeritus president of the JRC, since the councilʼsfoundation in 2002 was taken over by the current board of directors of the JRC lead by
President Dr. Hiroshi Nonogi and Vice-President Dr. Tetsuya Sakamoto. We planned the
JRC Newsletter English Edition as a public relations magazine to share our ideas andactivities with the world.
For now, we will publish the JRC Newsletter English Edition as a quarterly online
journal on the JRCʼs website; we will also publish it in a booklet on the occasion of
the Annual Meeting of the Japan Resuscitation Science Symposium (J-ReSS). The
JRC Newsletter English Edition will cover explanatory notes and updates on the JRC
Resuscitation Guidelines as well as an introduction to the critical bibliographies onresuscitation and resuscitation science. In the near future, the JRC Newsletter English
Edition will cover peer-reviewed original articles and reviews in the ﬁeld of resuscitation
as an academic medical journal. We would like your feedback on the JRC Newsletter
English Edition, so it can be a valuable resource for global and domestic progress ofresuscitation and resuscitation science.

ɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹɹMasao Nagayama, MD, PhD, FAAN, FJSIMSecretary-General, Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC)
Professor, Department of Neurology,
International University of Health and Welfare School of Medicine

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Members of the Japan Resuscitation Council
Japan ACLS Association
Japan First aid and Emergency care Foundation
Japan Foundation for Emergency Medicine
Japan Pediatric Society
Japan Society for Instruction Systems in Healthcare
Japan Society of Neurological Emergencies and Critical Care
Japan Society for Prehospital Medicine
Japan Society of Neurosurgical Emergency
Japan Society of Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine
Japanese Association for Acute Medicine
Japanese Association of Brain Hypothermia and Temperature Management
Japanese Circulation Society
Japanese Dental Society of Anesthesiology
Japanese Paramedics Association
Japanese Red Cross Society
Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine
Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists
Japanese Society of Emergency Pediatrics
Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Japanese Society of Pediatric Anesthesiology
Japanese Society of Reanimatology
Osaka Life Support Association （alphabetical order）

Supporting members of the Japan Resuscitation Council＜ Organization ＞

Japan Medical Association＜ Company ＞

IMI. Co., Ltd
Asahi Kasei ZOLL Medical Corporation
Athena Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Kawasumi Laboratories
Daiken Medical Co., Ltd.
Nihon Kohden Corporation
Physio-Control Japan, Inc.
Philips Electronics Japan, Ltd.
Laerdal® and Resusci® are registered trademarks of Laerdal Medical Corporation.

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