THE GLOBAL DEFINITIVE FOR RESUSCITATION GUIDELINES:
Since the last few couple of years, the American Heart Association has been the leader and the definitive for survival health- care and resuscitation guidelines amongst healthcare professionals around America.
The association also offers courses in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) to people.
Since there is no global body to define and create guidelines on CPR every year, the AHA’s rules are widely accepted. Along with the American Heart Association, European Resuscitation Council (ERC), the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) and other related organizations, the first international CPR Guidelines were published in 2000.
Since then, an updated list of guidelines and rules is published every five years.