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* Important statements

AEDs and Defibrillators 

  Statement on Safe and effective manual defibrillation

  Statement on The training required to use an AED   new

  Recommended standard sign for location of AEDs in public places

  Guidance for AED manufacturers on voice prompts for AEDs

  Statement on the use of AEDs
    (Interim period until AED has been re-programmed)

  Voice prompts on older AEDs

  Responsibility of organisations and institutions to provide a defibrillator

 
 
 
Other statements 

  Some clarifications regarding British Thoracic Society guidelines
    for emergency oxygen use in adult patients

  Requirements for resuscitation training and facilities
    for cardiac rehabilitation programmes
    (A joint statement with the British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation) 

  Statement on cardiac arrest or cardiovascular collapse
    caused by local anaesthetic

  Statement on compression-only CPR
    (RC(UK) response to the American Heart Association statement on  
    Hands-Only (Compression-Only) CPR, published on 31 March 2008)

  RC(UK) ALS course - or ALS "equivalent"?

  Teaching paediatric life support to laypeople

  A statement on "Cough CPR"

  "First Responder" and other terms, defined

  Standardisation of the "Crash" Call number - 2222


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