While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare—about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S.—the survival rate when it happens outside of a hospital is estimated to be under 20%.

New basic life support guidelines for the management of adult and paediatric cardiopulmonary arrest have recently been recommended by the Resuscitation Council UK. Greater emphasis has been given to ...

The Health and Social Care Northern Ireland Clinical Education Centre created an e-learning programme for nurses and midwives to learn paediatric basic life support online. This allowed health ...