Part 1: Executive Summary
Authors: Mary Fran Hazinski, Jerry P. Nolan, Richard Aickin, Farhan Bhanji, John E. Billi, Clifton W. Callaway, Maaret Castren, Allan R. de Caen, Jose Maria E. Ferrer, Judith C. Finn, Lana M. Gent, Russell E. Griffin, Sandra Iverson, Eddy Lang, Swee Han Lim, Ian K. Maconochie, William H. Montgomery, Peter T. Morley, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Robert W. Neumar, Nikolaos I. Nikolaou, Gavin D. Perkins, Jeffrey M. Perlman, Eunice M. Singletary, Jasmeet Soar, Andrew H. Travers, Michelle Welsford, Jonathan Wyllie, David A. Zideman
Journal: Circulation (2015)

The ILCOR mission is to identify and review international science and information relevant to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC) and to offer consensus on treatment recommendations.ECC includes all responses necessary to treat sudden life-threatening events affecting the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, with a particular focus on sudden cardiac arrest.For this 2015 consensus publication, ILCOR also included first aid topics in its international review and consensus recommendations.In 1999, the AHA hosted the first ILCOR conference to evaluate resuscitation science and develop common resuscitation guidelines.The conference recommendations were published in the Guidelines 2000 for CPR and ECC. 1 Since 2000, researchers from the ILCOR member councils have evaluated and reported their International Consensus on CPR and ECC Science With Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR) in 5-year cycles.The conclusions and recommendations of the 2010 CoSTR were published at the end of 2010. 2,3Since that time, ILCOR meetings and webinars have continued to identify and evaluate resuscitation science.The most recent ILCOR 2015 International Consensus Conference on CPR and ECC Science With Treatment Recommendations was held in Dallas in February 2015, and this publication contains the consensus science statements and treatment recommendations developed with input from the ILCOR task forces, the invited participants, and public comment.The Parts of this CoSTR publication include a summary of the ILCOR processes of evidence evaluation and management of potential or perceived conflicts of interest, and then reports of the consensus of the task forces on adult basic life support (BLS; including CPR quality and use of an automated external defibrillator [AED]); advanced life support (ALS; including post-cardiac arrest care); acute coronary syndromes (ACS); pediatric BLS and ALS; neonatal resuscitation; education, implementation, and teams (EIT); and first aid.The 2015 CoSTR publication is not a comprehensive review of every aspect of resuscitation medicine; not all topics reviewed in 2010 were rereviewed in 2015.This Executive Summary highlights the evidence evaluation and treatment recommendations of this 2015 evidence evaluation process.Not all relevant references are cited here, because the detailed systematic reviews are included in the individual Parts of the 2015 CoSTR publication.A list of all topics reviewed can be found in the Appendix. Evidence Evaluation ProcessThe 2015 evidence evaluation process started in 2012 when ILCOR representatives formed 7 task forces: BLS, ALS, ACS, pediatric BLS and ALS, neonatal resuscitation, EIT, and, for