Sir, I am writing to you to stress the significance of child Basic Life Support (BLS). Throughout my undergraduate training, I felt a lot of emphasis was placed on adult BLS; however, childhood BLS ...

Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support but may be less confident with paediatric basic life support skills, which are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Basic Life Support (BLS) is a set of simple, life-saving steps used to help someone whose heart has stopped beating. It includes skills like CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and the use of an AED ...

Certain paediatric modifications to adult CPR have been mentioned: 1 Resuscitation Council UK. Paediatric basic life support guidelines. 2021. Available at: https ...