Improving resuscitation quality

Five decades on from the first descriptions of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) many hundreds of thousands of lives have undoubtedly been saved through widespread adoption of CPR. However for every individual life saved between six and fifty other cardiac arrest victims do not survive.1–3 The Declaration of the European Parliament of 14 June 2012 to establish a European cardiac arrest awareness week set forth the challenge to improve the awareness and education of the general public, physicians and healthcare professionals about CPR