> Life support courses have been a very powerful force
> in driving up standards of resus in the UK IMHO.
That may be so in terms of trauma resuscitation (forcing those who weren't interested to follow a recipe book) but one of
the most interesting papers on cardiac resuscitation showed that there had been no overall improvement in outcome in 30
years. As I have said before, the key to improved success in resuscitation is improved community awareness and training
in BLS; I am yet to be convinced that anything other than BLS and defibrillation are of any benefit in cardiac
resuscitation to achieve the status of walking out of the door. The rest is needless complication and flummery.
Of course this makes for a major problem for the Resus council who need it all to be complicated to have something to
debate, but we need to stay on message with resuscitation - most nursing and other paramedical staff are absolutely
terrified of ALS courses, and we need to get away from this negativity.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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