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The ANZCOR (Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation) guidelines provide those involved in resuscitation education and practice with recommendations based on scientific evidence.

Please note: Guidelines may be modified at any time and are only current from the day of printing.

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ANZCOR Scientific Statements

In Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Algorithms and Flowcharts

Basic Life Support

Adult Advanced Life Support

Paediatric Advanced Life Support

Newborn Life Support

Choking (Management of Foreign Body Airway Obstruction)

Anaphylaxis

NZ Resuscitation Council Supplementary document to Anaphylaxis Flowchart: Dosage of IM Adrenaline for Anaphylaxis (Large Version)

NZ Resuscitation Council Supplementary document to Anaphylaxis Flowchart: Dosage of IM Adrenaline for Anaphylaxis (Small Version)

Universal ILCOR AED Sign

Section 1 | Guideline Development

Guideline 1.3 - Process for Developing Resuscitation Guidelines

Guideline 1.4 - Principles and Format for Developing Guidelines

Sections 2-8 | Basic Life Support

Guideline 2 – Managing an Emergency

Guideline 3 – Recognition and First Aid Management of the Unconscious Person

Guideline 4 – Airway

Guideline 5 – Breathing

Guideline 6 – Compressions

Guideline 7 – Automated External Defibrillation in Basic Life Support

Guideline 8 – Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

Section 9.1 | First Aid Management of Injuries

Guideline 9.1.1 – First Aid for Management of Bleeding

Guideline 9.1.3 – First Aid for Burns

Guideline 9.1.4 – Head Injury

Guideline 9.1.5 – First Aid Management of Harness Suspension Trauma

Guideline 9.1.6 – Management of Suspected Spinal Injury

Guideline 9.1.7 - First Aid Management of Crush Injury

Section 9.2 | First Aid Management of Medical Conditions

Guideline 9.2.1 – Recognition and First Aid Management of Suspected Heart Attack

Guideline 9.2.2 – Stroke

Guideline 9.2.3 – Shock: First Aid Management of the Seriously Ill or Injured Person

Guideline 9.2.4 - First Aid Management of a Seizure

Guideline 9.2.5 – First Aid for Asthma

Guideline 9.2.7 – First Aid Management of Anaphylaxis

Guideline 9.2.8 - First Aid Management of Rapid Breathing (including Panic Attack)

Guideline 9.2.9 – First Aid Management of a Diabetic Emergency

Guideline 9.2.10 – The Use of Oxygen in Emergencies

Guideline 9.2.11 – First Aid Management of The Agitated Person

Guideline 9.2.12 – Recognition and First Aid Management of the Seriously Ill person including Sepsis

Guideline 9.2.13 – First Aid Recognition and Management of Presyncope

Section 9.3 | First Aid Management for the Environment

Guideline 9.3.2 – Resuscitation in Drowning

Guideline 9.3.3 - First Aid Management of Hypothermia and Cold-Related Injuries

Guideline 9.3.4 – Heat Induced Illness (Hyperthermia)

Guideline 9.3.5 – First Aid and Resuscitation for Divers who have Breathed Compressed Gas

Sections 9.4-9.5 | First Aid for Bites, Stings and Poisoning

Guideline 9.4.1 – First Aid Management of Australian Snake Bite

Guideline 9.4.2 - First Aid Management of Spider Bite

Guideline 9.4.3 – Envenomation from Tick Bites and Bee, Wasp and Ant Stings

Guideline 9.4.5 - Envenomation - Jellyfish Stings

Guideline 9.4.6 - Envenomation - Blue-Ringed Octopus and Cone Shell

Guideline 9.4.7 - Envenomation - Fish Stings

Guideline 9.4.8 - Envenomation - Pressure Immobilisation Technique

Guideline 9.5.1 – First Aid Management of Poisoning

Guideline 9.5.2 – First Aid Management of Opioid Overdose

Section 10 | Education and Implementation

Guideline 10.1 - Basic Life Support (BLS) Training

Guideline 10.2 – Advanced Life Support (ALS) Training

Guideline 10.3 - Good Practice Statement: Minimum Hygiene Requirements for Resuscitation and First Aid Training

Guidance Statement 10.5.1 – Legal Issues Related to Responding to Emergency Situations and Resuscitation

Guideline 10.6 Family Presence during Resuscitation

Section 11 | Adult Advanced Life Support

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Guideline 11.2 – Protocols for Adult Advanced Life Support

Guideline 11.3 - Precordial Thump and Percussion (Fist) Pacing

Guideline 11.4 – Electrical Therapy for Adult Advanced Life Support

Guideline 11.5 – Medications in Adult Cardiac Arrest

Guideline 11.6 – Equipment and Techniques in Adult Advanced Life Support

Guideline 11.6.1 – Targeted Oxygen Therapy in Adult Advanced Life Support

Guideline 11.7 – Post-resuscitation Therapy in Adult Advanced Life Support

Guideline 11.8 – Temperature Control after Cardiac Arrest

Guideline 11.9 - Managing Acute Dysrhythmias

Guideline 11.10 Resuscitation in special circumstances

Guideline 11.10.1 Management of Cardiac Arrest due to Trauma

Section 12 | Paediatric Advanced Life Support

Guideline 12.1 – Paediatric Basic Life Support (PBLS) for health professionals

Guideline 12.2 – Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Guideline 12.3 – Management of other (non-arrest) arrhythmias in infants and children

Guideline 12.4 – Paediatric resuscitation in special circumstances

Guideline 12.5 – Management after Return of Spontaneous Circulation (ROSC)

Section 13 | Newborn Resuscitation

Guideline 13.1 – Introduction to Resuscitation of the Newborn

Guideline 13.2 – Planning for Newborn Resuscitation and Identification of the Newborn at Risk

Guideline 13.3 – Assessment of the Newborn

Guideline 13.4 – Airway Management and Mask Ventilation of the Newborn

Guideline 13.5 – Tracheal Intubation and Ventilation of the Newborn

Guideline 13.6 – Chest Compressions during Resuscitation of the Newborn

Guideline 13.7 – Medication or Fluids for the Resuscitation of the Newborn

Guideline 13.8 – The Resuscitation of the Newborn in Special Circumstances

Guideline 13.9 – After the Resuscitation of a Newborn

Guideline 13.10 – Ethical Issues in Resuscitation of the Newborn

Physiology of Birth Asphyxia

Section 14 | Acute Coronary Syndromes

Guideline 14 - Acute Coronary syndromes

Guideline 14.1 – Acute Coronary Syndromes: Presentation

Guideline 14.1.2 The use of a gastro intestinal cocktail for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in adult emergency department patients presenting with chest pain

Guideline 14.2 – Acute Coronary Syndromes: Initial Medical Therapy

Guideline 14.3 – Acute Coronary Syndromes: Reperfusion Strategy

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If you have any questions, please reach out to the Resuscitation Council in your country.

For enquiries in New Zealand, head to:

NZ Resuscitation Council

For enquiries in Australia, head to:

AU Resuscitation Council