These European Resuscitation Council Ethics guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for the ethical, routine practice of resuscitation and end-of-life care of adults and children. The guideline primarily focus on major ethical practice interventions (i.e. advance directives, advance care planning, and shared decision making), decision making regarding resuscitation, education, and research. These areas are tightly related to the application of the principles of bioethics in the practice of resuscitation and end-of-life care.

UNLABELLED: Diese Ethikleitlinien des Europäischen Rats für Wiederbelebung enthalten evidenzbasierte Empfehlungen für die ethische, routinemäßige Praxis der Wiederbelebung und für die Betreuung von Erwachsenen und Kindern am Lebensende. Die Leitlinie konzentriert sich in erster Linie auf wichtige Maßnahmen in Bezug auf ethische Praktiken (d. h. Patientenverfügung, vorausschauende Behandlungsplanung* und gemeinsame Entscheidungsfindung), die Entscheidungsfindung in Bezug auf Wiederbelebung, Ausbildung und Forschung. Diese Bereiche stehen in engem Zusammenhang mit der Anwendung der Prinzipien der Bioethik in der Praxis der Wiederbelebung und der Betreuung am Lebensende. ZUSATZMATERIAL ONLINE: Zusätzliche Informationen sind in der Online-Version dieses Artikels (10.1007/s10049-021-00888-8) enthalten.

Abteilung für Intensivmedizin Universitätsklinikum Gent Gent Belgien

Abteilung für Kinderanästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin Universitätsklinikum und Medizinische Fakultät der Masaryk Universität Brno Tschechien

Evaggelismos Allgemeines Krankenhaus Abteilung für Intensivmedizin Medizinische Fakultät der Nationalen und Kapodistrischen Universität Athen 45 47 Ipsilandou Street 10675 Athen Griechenland

Intensivstation für Kinder NH Hospital Hořovice Tschechien

Klinisches Krankenhaus Merkur Zagreb Kroatien

Medizinische Fakultät Warwick Universität Warwick Coventry Großbritannien

Medizinisches Zentrum der Universität Amsterdam Amsterdam Niederlande

School of Medicine Europäische Universität Zypern Nikosia Zypern

Serbischer Wiederbelebungsrat Novi Sad Serbien

staatliches Gesundheitsministerium Brüssel Belgien

Universität Antwerpen Antwerpen Belgien

Universitätskliniken Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust UK Critical Care Unit Birmingham Großbritannien

Universitätsklinikum Skane Abteilung für klinische Wissenschaften Lund Neurologie Universität Lund Lund Schweden

Universitätsklinikum und Universität Gent Gent Belgien

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