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Tick_stroke RCUK’s position on the use of suction-based airway clearance devices on choking individuals

With several airway clearance devices now available in the UK, Resuscitation Council UK outlines their stance on these devices. 

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Excellence in Resuscitation Award winners 2024

Tick_stroke Resuscitation Council UK reveals winners of inaugural Excellence in Resuscitation Awards

RCUK announces the winners of the inaugural Excellence in Resuscitation Awards. Designed to honour resuscitation greats who devoted their lives and work to the field, the awards spotlight those currently continuing their legacies.

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Tick_stroke Resuscitation Council UK launches landmark report to address inequalities in resuscitation

Resuscitation Council UK has launched a landmark report - Every second counts: Tackling inequalities in resuscitation. The report warns that socio-economic deprivation, a person’s ethnicity, or cultural background, shouldn’t determine whether a person is more or less likely to survive a cardiac arrest.

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Tick_stroke Case Study: Neil - "I would have likely died if my son hadn’t have been there"

When 55 year old Neil Davidson went to bed on 31 July 2017, he wasn’t expecting to wake up in hospital. Were it not for the quick thinking of his son, Oliver, he might not have woken up at all.

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