Understanding the 2019 AHA Updated Guidelines Video
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Before 2017, AHA and ILCOR released updated ACLS, BLS, and PALS standards every five years. Since 2017, AHA and ILCOR have released annual updates to the AHA guidelines based on the best currently available scientific evidence. The AHA plans to release a full update every five years as in the past, but there is consensus that annual updates will ensure better patient care and outcomes.
In the annual update in 2019, changes were made in the following sections of the CPR, BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP, and First Aid guidelines:
- Dispatcher assisted CPR for adults
- Cardiac arrest centers for adults
- Use of advanced airways in adult ACLS
- Use of vasopressors in adult ACLS
- Use of extracorporeal CPR in adult ACLS
- Dispatcher assisted CPR for pediatric patients
- Use of advanced airways in PALS
- Use of targeted temperature management in PALS
- Use of extracorporeal CPR in PALS
- Oxygen concentration for term newborns
- Oxygen concentration for pre-term newborns
- First aid for presyncope
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