New basic life support guidelines for the management of adult and paediatric cardiopulmonary arrest have recently been recommended by the Resuscitation Council UK. Greater emphasis has been given to ...

This article, the third of a four-part series, explores paediatric basic life support. Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support but may be less confident with paediatric ...

Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support but may be less confident with paediatric basic life support skills, which are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.