POLISH RESUSCITATION COUNCILS

Polish Resuscitation Council came into existence in 2001 as a result of agreement of:

• Polish Association of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care,

• Polish Association of Emergency Medicine,

• Polish Association of Emergency States and Catastrophe,

• Polish Association of Cardiology,

• Polish Association of Neonatology,

• Polish Association of Paediatrics.

Council obtained Judicial registration in 2002. Seat of the Council is Kraków.

Works of Polish Resuscitation Council take place in working groups:

• Basic life support and automated external defibrillation and first aid (BLS-AED),

• Advanced life support (ALS),

• Pediatric life support (PLS),

• Acute cardiac syndromes (ACS),

• Stroke,

• Resuscitation in injuries,

• Intrahospital resuscitation,

• Posthospital resuscitation,

• Experimental and clinical research,

• Trainings and education.