What is Basic Life Support (BLS)? Ever wondered what you'd do in a life-or-death situation? Basic Life Support (BLS) is like your emergency toolkit for those critical moments. It's a set of skills ...

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 ...

Resuscitation is a technique used by professional health care staff, as well as members of the public. It is essential for all health care professionals to be able to perform basic life support, and ...

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%.

The term “life support” refers to any combination of machines and medication that keeps a person’s body alive when their organs would otherwise stop working. Usually people use the words life support ...