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Survival of cardiac arrest continues to be very poor. In-hospital cardiac arrest has a survival to hospital discharge of 17,6% all rhythms<cite>Meaney</cite>. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has a worse survival with 10,7% survival to hospital discharge for all rhythms.<cite>Atwood</cite> Survival is dependent on the characteristics of the cardiac arrest (rhythm), on the patient’s medical history, and the time between the cardiac arrest en start of resuscitation.<cite>Waalewijn, Holmberg1, Holmberg2</cite> The introduction of the automated external defibrillator (AED) has dramatically increased survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims.<cite>ESC, Nolan1</cite> In this chapter we give an overview of basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS) based on the recommendation of the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2010. | Survival of cardiac arrest continues to be very poor. In-hospital cardiac arrest has a survival to hospital discharge of 17,6% all rhythms<cite>Meaney</cite>. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has a worse survival with 10,7% survival to hospital discharge for all rhythms.<cite>Atwood</cite> Survival is dependent on the characteristics of the cardiac arrest (rhythm), on the patient’s medical history, and the time between the cardiac arrest en start of resuscitation.<cite>Waalewijn, Holmberg1, Holmberg2</cite> The introduction of the automated external defibrillator (AED) has dramatically increased survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims.<cite>ESC, Nolan1</cite> In this chapter we give an overview of basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS) based on the recommendation of the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2010. | ||