European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021
R E S U S C I T A T I O N 1 6 1 ( 2 0 2 1 ) 4 0 8 À4 3 2 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Resuscitation jou rnal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/resuscitation European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Ethics of resuscitation and end of life decisions a, b,c d,e Spyros D. Mentzelopoulos *, Keith Couper , Patrick Van de Voorde , f g b h i,j Patrick Druwe´ , Marieke Blom , Gavin D. Perkins , Ileana Lulic , Jana Djakow , k,l m n Violetta Raffay , Gisela Lilja , Leo Bossaert a National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece b UK Critical Care Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK c Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK d University Hospital and University Ghent, Belgium e Federal Department Health, Belgium f Ghent University Hospital, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ghent, Belgium g Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands h Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia i Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, NH Hospital, Horovice, Czech Republic j Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital and Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic k European University Cyprus, School of Medicine, Nicosia, Cyprus l Serbian Resuscitation Council, Novi Sad, Serbia m Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Neurology, Lund, Sweden n University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Abstract These European Resuscitation Council Ethics guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for the ethical, routine practice of resuscitation and end-of-life care of adults and children. The guideline primarily focus on major ethical practice interventions (i.e.
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