Editing Basic life support (section)

==Background==
The [[International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation]] (ILCOR) was formed in 1992 to coordinate the efforts of resuscitation worldwide. The ILCOR representatives come from various countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and from the European, Asian, and African continents. In 2000, the committee published the first resuscitation guideline. In 2005, the committee published International Consensus on [[Cardiopulmonary resuscitation]] (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Science with Treatment Recommendations. Since 2010, the committee has provided materials for regional resuscitation providers such as [[European Resuscitation Council]] and [[American Heart Association]] to write their own guidelines.<ref>{{cite web |title=About ILCOR |url=https://www.ilcor.org/about-ilcor/about-ilcor/ |publisher=International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation |access-date=27 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814171932/https://www.ilcor.org/about-ilcor/about-ilcor/ |archive-date=14 August 2018}}</ref> Since 2015, ILCOR has used a new methodology called Consensus on Science with Treatment Recommendations (COSTR) to evaluate the quality of latest evidence available and to reach a conclusion on the best treatments available in resuscitation.<ref>{{cite web |title=About CoSTR - Continuous Evidence Evaluation (CEE) and Consensus on Science with Treatment Recommendations (CoSTRs) |url=https://costr.ilcor.org/about |publisher=International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation |access-date=28 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331083324/https://costr.ilcor.org/about |archive-date=31 March 2019}}</ref> Using the COSTR methodology, ILCOR also started to conduct yearly reviews and published updates on the latest evidence in resuscitation, changing it from the previous 5-yearly review on resuscitation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions- What is a CoSTR? |url=https://costr.ilcor.org/faq |publisher=International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation |access-date=28 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331230129/https://costr.ilcor.org/faq |archive-date=31 March 2019}}</ref>

[[CPR]] provided in the field increases the time available for higher medical responders to arrive and provide [[Advanced life support|ALS]] care. An important advance in providing BLS is the availability of the [[automated external defibrillator]] or AED. This improves survival outcomes in [[cardiac arrest]] cases.<ref>{{cite journal |title= Public-access defibrillation and survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest |journal= [[The New England Journal of Medicine]] |volume= 351 |issue= 7 |year= 2004 |pages= 637–46 |pmid= 15306665 |doi= 10.1056/NEJMoa040566 |last1= Hallstrom |first1= A. P. |last2= Ornato |first2= J. P. |last3= Weisfeldt |first3= M.|author-link3=Myron L. Weisfeldt|last4= Travers |first4= A. |last5= Christenson |first5= J. |last6= McBurnie |first6= M. A. |last7= Zalenski |first7= R. |last8= Becker |first8= L. B. |last9= Schron |first9= E. B. |last10= Proschan |first10= M. |author11= Public Access Defibrillation Trial Investigators |url= https://repository.upenn.edu/nrs/57 |doi-access= free }}</ref>