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  1. Statement on End-Tidal CO2 Monitoring – ‘No trace, wrong place’

    An important update for health professionals who require clarity on end-tidal CO2 monitoring.

  2. Equality and Diversity Monitoring

  3. Case Study: Amirah - "Doing something is better than doing nothing at all"

    … tackle the apparent lack of BLS education in communities through an annual delivery of BLS teaching by trained … to get into contact with several members of Lee’s family through social media. They conveyed their immense gratitude …

  4. Professor Gavin Perkins, Vice President of Resuscitation Council UK responds to new CellAED personal defibrillator technology

    … as many cardiac arrests in this setting are unwitnessed ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18381485/ )   The concept of … inequalities in access to public access defibrillators. ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34757059/ ) Any future …

  5. Statement on 2019 Health Profile for England

    RCUK welcomes a predicted downward trend in heart disease and reflects on the continued need for high quality resuscitation.

  6. Case Study: Susan - "CPR training helped save my husband’s life"

  7. Case Study: Simon - "It took a team to save my life"

    … contacted by Christine Stephenson and Kelly Best who run North East Hearts with Goals, a local charity that places … of 32. Their defibrillators have now saved 30 lives in the North East.” Simon has also received support through the Freeman Hospital and North Tyneside General, where he received a diagnosis of …

  8. Make defibs accessible 24/7 to help increase survival rates across the UK, say national resus experts

    … 24/7, to give a person suffering a cardiac arrest the best chance of survival. James Cant, CEO at RCUK says: … by as high as 50-70% - Gavin Perkins: https://emj.bmj.com/content/33/7/448#ref-9 Citing this study: …

  9. Case Study: John - "I couldn't have had a cardiac arrest at a better place"

  10. Statement on ReSPECT’s impact on reducing potentially avoidable emergency admissions from care homes

    A report by the Improvement Analytics Unit and Health Foundation saw that reducing emergency admissions could be good for care homes.