While the major focus will be upon treatment guidelines, the steering committee will also address the effectiveness of educational and training approaches and topics related to the organization and implementation of emergency cardiac care.

The Committee will also encourage coordination of dates for guidelines development and conferences by various national resuscitation councils.

These international guidelines will aim for a commonality supported by science for BLS, ALS and PLS.

ILCOR produced the first International CPR Guidelines in 2000, and revised protocols in 2005 (published concurrently in the scientific journals Resuscitation[2] and Circulation).

[3] A total of 281 experts completed 403 worksheets on 275 topics, reviewing more than 22000 published studies to produce the 2005 revision.