As expected, the 2025 American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) was recently released and it contains a wealth of information about caring for cardiac emergencies.

| STAY INFORMED: 2025 AHA CPR guideline changes — mechanical CPR, choking, single chain of survival

Many providers from all levels of healthcare skimmed the Highlights document to find the big changes that would need to be implemented in the coming months to better care for victims of cardiac arrest, non-arrest arrhythmias, airway obstructions and respiratory failure due to opioid overdose.

I did the same, but I also took the time to review the full Guidelines to learn more details about changes related to out-of-hospital care. Follow

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