
Kids Save Lives – ERC position statement on school children’s education in CPR. “Hands that help – Training children is training for life”
Bernd W. Böttiger, MD, ML, DEAA, FESC, FERC
Director Science and Research, European Resuscitation Council (ERC)
Chairman, German Resuscitation Council (GRC)
Professor and Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
University Hospital of Cologne
bernd.boettiger@uk-koeln.de
Anaesthesiologists – together with many other specialists, societies, healthcare providers, teachers, and politicians – can save 100,000 additional lives every year in Europe, and more than 300,000 lives worldwide.