Editing Advanced cardiac life support (section)

== International guidelines ==
Stemming from the need for standardized, evidence based ACLS guidelines, an international network of academic resuscitation organizations was created. The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) is the central, international institution that regional resuscitation committees strive to contribute to and disseminate information from. The centralization of resuscitation research around ILCOR reduces redundant work internationally, allows for collaboration between experts from many regional organizations, and produces higher quality, higher powered research.

=== International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation ===
[[International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation|ILCOR]] serves as a way for international resuscitation organizations to communicate and collaborate.<ref name=":04">{{Cite web|title=International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation|url=https://ilcor.org/about|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-13|website=www.ilcor.org/about|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815104032/https://www.ilcor.org/about |archive-date=2020-08-15 }}</ref> ILCOR publishes [[scientific evidence]] reviews on resuscitation known as "Continuous Evidence Evaluation (CEE) and Consensus on Science with Treatment Recommendations (CoSTRs)".<ref>{{Cite web|title=ILCOR CoSTR|url=https://costr.ilcor.org/about|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-13|website=www.costr.ilcor.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626031107/https://costr.ilcor.org/about |archive-date=2018-06-26 }}</ref> ILCOR uses 6 international task forces to review over 180 topics through a structured [[Systematic review|systematic-review]] process. ILCOR traditionally published updates and recommendations every five years but now conducts continuous review work.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nolan|first1=Jerry P.|last2=Maconochie|first2=Ian|last3=Soar|first3=Jasmeet|last4=Olasveengen|first4=Theresa M.|last5=Greif|first5=Robert|last6=Wyckoff|first6=Myra H.|last7=Singletary|first7=Eunice M.|last8=Aickin|first8=Richard|last9=Berg|first9=Katherine M.|last10=Mancini|first10=Mary E.|last11=Bhanji|first11=Farhan|date=2020-10-20|title=Executive Summary: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations|journal=Circulation|volume=142|issue=16_suppl_1|pages=S2–S27|doi=10.1161/CIR.0000000000000890|pmid=33084397|s2cid=224828809|doi-access=free}}</ref> ILCOR produces international recommendations which are then adopted by regional resuscitation committees which publish guidelines.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ILCOR FAQs|url=https://cpr.heart.org/en/resuscitation-science/ilcor/ilcor-faqs|access-date=2022-01-25|website=cpr.heart.org|language=en}}</ref> Regional guidelines can have more [[Duty of care|medicolegal bearing]] than ILCOR recommendations.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Recupero|first=Patricia R.|date=2008-09-01|title=Clinical Practice Guidelines as Learned Treatises: Understanding Their Use as Evidence in the Courtroom|url=http://jaapl.org/content/36/3/290|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online|language=en|volume=36|issue=3|pages=290–301|issn=1093-6793|pmid=18802175}}</ref> ILCOR is composed of the following regional organizations:

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!Regional Organization
!Affiliated Nations
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|American Heart Association (AHA)
|United States
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|European Resuscitation Council (ERC)<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Resuscitation Councils|url=https://www.erc.edu/about/national-resuscitation-councils|access-date=25 January 2022|website=European Resuscitation Council}}</ref>
|Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
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|Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC)
|Canada
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|Australian Resuscitation Council
|Australia
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|New Zealand Resuscitation Council
|New Zealand
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|Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa (RCSA)
|South Africa
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|InterAmerican Heart Foundation (IAHF)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Members & Alliances – InterAmerican Heart Foundation|url=https://interamericanheart.org/alliances/|access-date=2022-01-25|language=en-US}}</ref>
|Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, United States
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|Resuscitation Council of Asia (RCA)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Members|url=http://resuscitationcouncil.asia/members.html|access-date=2022-01-25|website=Resuscitation Council of Asia|language=en}}</ref>
|Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan
|}