Acute cardiac care & resuscitation

Part 7: Adult Basic Life Support: 2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

CirculationPublished Clinical practice guideline

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. Updated recommendations on the treatment of foreign-body airway obstruction

  2. Use of opioid antagonists (eg, naloxone) during respiratory or cardiac arrest incorporated into the adult basic life support algorithms

Original publication

Part 7: Adult Basic Life Support: 2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. Circulation. Published 22 October 2025. doi:10.1161/cir.0000000000001369

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