The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation published the 2022 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science with Treatment Recommendations in Circulation, Resuscitation, and Pediatrics in November 2022. This consensus updates and recommends important aspects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation based on recently published resuscitation evidence. Herein, we interpret the consensus focusing on adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation including basic life support (ventilation techniques, compressions pause, transport strategies during resuscitation, and resuscitation procedures in drowning), advanced life support (target temperature management, point-of-care ultrasound as a diagnostic tool during cardiac arrest, vasopressin and corticosteroids for cardiac arrest, and post-cardiac arrest coronary angiography), cardiopulmonary resuscitation education/implementation/team (survival prediction after resuscitation of patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest, basic life support training, advanced life support training, blended learning for life support education, and faculty development approaches for life support courses) and recovery positions on rescue scene. This consensus provides important guidance for clinical practice and clear hints for the development of clinical research.
In October 2025, the American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics released the “2025 American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care”, which systematically revised the 2025 version guideline based on evidence-based medicine, comprehensively updated the recommended content, class (strength) of recommendation, and level (quality) of evidence, and provided the latest recommendations aimed at improving survival rates and neurological outcomes after cardiac arrest. Since 2020, the Cardiology Committee of American Heart Association has strengthened its collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics to jointly publish and cochair the writing groups for neonatal resuscitation, pediatric basic life support, and pediatric advanced life support. This article mainly interprets the recommended content for updating neonatal resuscitation, pediatric basic life support, and pediatric advanced life support, in order to better guide emergency personnel and improve the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiovascular emergency care.