Expert Life Support: Advanced Initial Treatment of Critically Ill Patients and Patients in Cardiac Arrest

This book aims to provide a next-step in resuscitation care compared to the standard Advanced life support (ALS) guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) or the American heart association (AHA), the trauma care guidelines for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and the European Trauma Course (ETC) guidelines. Compared to these guidelines, “Expert life support” provides a more in-depth discussion of topics not extensively discussed in existing guidelines, and it also covers (relatively) new techniques and concepts, such as endovascular resuscitation and physiology-guided resuscitation.