Posted on 10/23/2025

The 2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care were published on October 22, 2025. 

The purpose of the guidelines is to provide best practice recommendations in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care. These guidelines are an update to the recommendations in the 2020 guidelines and provide new recommendations to topics where recommendations previously did not exist.

The guidelines provide guidance for lay rescuers and healthcare professionals in the treatment of neonates, pediatrics, and adults. Chapter topics include systems of care, neonatal life support, adult and pediatric basic and advanced life support, post-cardiac arrest care, special circumstances, education and training, and ethics.

Chain of survival

Full guidelines are available here. 

Part 1: Executive summary

Part 2: Evidence evaluation and guidelines development

Part 3: Ethics

Part 4: Systems of Care

Part 5: Neonatal Resuscitation

Part 6: Pediatric Basic Life Support

Part 7: Adult Basic Life Support

Part 8: Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Part 9: Adult Advanced Life Support

Part 10: Adult and Pediatric Special Circumstances of Resuscitation

Part 11: Post–Cardiac Arrest Care

Part 12: Resuscitation Education Science

 

SOURCE: American Heart Association

 

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