Talk:Basic life support

message: No, BLS should NOT be merged with CPR.
Basic Life Support is a level of prehospital medical care, the most that can be provided if paramedics, doctors or other advanced responders are unavailable.
CPR is just one of many techniques that can be useful in BLS.
I have tried to expand this article, with US and UK BLS guidelines and some references. I hope this is of some use. I feel that there probably still needs to be more depth and clarity in the introduction, which I will try to provide when I have more time. Gilo1969 (talk) 22:16, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 08:20, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
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message: Basic life support (BLS) seems to be nothing more than first aid. As defined by the American Heart Association and the Resuscitation Council (UK) in the given citations, BLS is equivalent to "emergency first aid" in Canada and "basic first aid" in Australia. I suggest that encyclopedic content from this page be merged with the relevant sections of "First aid" and that "Basic life support" any any pages that redirect to it be redirected to "First aid" or a section thereof. G. C. Hood (talk) 16:44, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: BLS and first aid are not equivalent, though this article makes it seem like they are. This article is improperly focused entirely on the CPR courses by the AHA and Resuscitation Council, which comprise only a part of BLS. Essentially, BLS is scope of practice of what basic EMTs can perform. BLS and ALS are levels of care, while first aid is what lay people provide. First aid typically does not include BLS skills such as airway insertion, mechanical ventilation, oxygen administration, airway suctioning, and spinal immobilization. This, and other EMS-related articles have been relatively poor over the years, with lots of redundant content. Better defining the scope of each article would be a good start to improving these articles. --Scott Alter (talk) 08:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

text: Oppose - First aid is a wide topic, covering many different skills, and BLS is a very focused topic looking at one set of protocols.  OwainDavies (about)(talk) edited at 12:58, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

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message: Hi again. I am wanting to delete all of the steps that are listed (WP:NOTHOWTO) because there are other pages (like Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) that do the job of explaining what doesn't need to be explained in detail here. I'm still working in the sandbox of what I would like the page to look like, but feel free to talk to me about what you think can be changed User:Astrokassie/sandbox2 . I'm not going to make any huge changes to this page all at once. Astrokassie (talk) 18:34, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It is generally OK to link to another article which covers the topic in more detail rather than including a content fork (repeating the same details in another place). Use a summary section with a  or  hatlink. The lead section of the main article can be a good guide to what should be in the summary section (if it has been written according to the manual of style, which is not always the case). You may have to look up references. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 06:40, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

text: In you sandbox you have a section "Other countries". This implies that the main article is about a specific country, which has not been identified and the title does not suggest that the topic is country-specific. It is preferable to make all articles as internationally applicable as reasonably practicable if the topic is internationally applicable - this is English language Wikipedia, it is used by a very wide range of people from all countries where English is an official language, and many people from other language regions because there may not be an equivalent in their own language Wikipedia, or en: may have a more comprehensive article. If there is a special reason why the article is about a regionally specific topic then that should be clear from the title. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 06:51, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:   Should I keep the section about the European Resuscitation Council the way it is currently, then? I feel like there's a better way to include that, because it's important, I just can't think of how. Astrokassie (talk) 23:19, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting the instructional text 

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