First Aid: 2025 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Consensus on Science With Treatment Recommendations
Abstract
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation conducts continuous reviews of new, peer-reviewed, published first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation science and publishes more comprehensive reviews every 5 years. The First Aid chapter of the 2025 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Consensus on Science With Treatment Recommendations addresses all published evidence reviewed by the First Aid Task Force science experts since 2020. This summary includes new systematic reviews on manual uterine massage for postpartum hemorrhage, unintentional injury from chest compressions in noncardiac arrests, and treatment of jellyfish stings. There are also new scoping reviews on the topics of first aid interventions to prevent adverse consequences of postpartum hemorrhage, spinal motion restriction, and preservation of an amputated body part. Summaries of systematic and scoping reviews included in the 2021 to 2024 annual summaries are also included to provide a more comprehensive reference for the reader. Members of the First Aid Task Force have assessed, discussed, and debated the certainty of the evidence, on the basis of the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation criteria, and their statements include consensus treatment recommendations. Insights into the deliberations of the task force are provided in the Justification and Evidence-to-Decision Framework Highlights sections. The task force also lists priority knowledge gaps for further research.
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Authors (42)
Therese Djärv
Matthew J. Douma
Jestin N. Carlson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA (J.N.C.).
Eunice M. Singletary
David C. Berry
Richard N. Bradley
Pascal Cassan
Wei-Tien Chang
Nathan P. Charlton
Diana Cimpoesu
Craig A. Goolsby
Swee Han Lim
Jen Heng Pek
Barry Klaassen
Amy Kule
Jorien Laermans
Finlay Macneil
Abel Martinez-Mejias
Daniel Meyran
Masashi Okubo
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Aaron M. Orkin
James Raitt
Heba Shahaed
Anna Maria Subic
Kaushila Thilakasiri
Frances Williamson
Vere Borra
Domhnall O’Dochartaigh
Jonathan L. Epstein
Gustavo E. Flores
Grete Heitmann
Teruko Kishibe
Ella MacKenzie
Peter T. Morley
Gene Yong-Kwang Ong
Tina L. Palmieri
Christopher Picard
Jessica Rogers
Tetsuya Sakamoto
Willem Stassen
Lloyd Visser
Michelle Welsford