CHAPTER 01 Introduction to Basic Life Support (Korea Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Association) Course
CHAPTER 02 Environment and Chain of Survival for Cardiac Arrest Survival
CHAPTER 03 The Importance of High-Quality Basic Life Support in Cardiac Arrest Patients
CHAPTER 04 Basic life support and chest compression resuscitation for adult cardiac arrest patients
CHAPTER 05 Application of AEDs in Adults
CHAPTER 06 Basic Life Support for Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
CHAPTER 07 Basic Life Support for Infants with Cardiac Arrest
CHAPTER 08 Application of AEDs in Children and Infants
CHAPTER 09 Application of Manual Defibrillators in Patients with Cardiac Arrest
CHAPTER 10 USE OF ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATORY EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER 11 Basic Life Support Techniques for Hospital Resuscitation Teams
CHAPTER 12 Basic Life Support when Using Specialized Airway Devices
CHAPTER 13 Foreign Body Airway Obstruction: Adults and Children
CHAPTER 14 Foreign Body Airway Obstruction: Infants
CHAPTER 15 CPR over the Phone
CHAPTER 16 Considerations Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic

In recent years, with the emphasis on quality assessment of healthcare institutions, the importance of systematic basic life support training for healthcare professionals is continuously increasing.
Since signing an education contract with the American Heart Association in 2005, the Korean Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Association has been providing basic life support training to healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association.
The American Heart Association's Basic Life Support (BLS) training course is structured in a video format, allowing for systematic practice of BLS. Furthermore, with the systematic management of instructors and trainees, it is now recognized as one of the essential training programs for healthcare professionals in Korea.
In fact, currently, more than 3,000 basic life support training sessions are conducted annually at approximately 220 basic life support training centers (BLS training sites) under the Korean Association of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, and approximately 38,000 healthcare professionals complete the training each year.
In addition, in 2018, the Korean BLS course, a basic life support training course tailored to the domestic healthcare environment, was developed by the Korean Association of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (KARS), and since then, approximately 450 training sessions have been conducted annually for approximately 7,500 healthcare professionals.
In fact, the basic life support training course of the Korean Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Association considers both cardiac arrest situations occurring outside of the hospital and cardiac arrest situations occurring within medical institutions, and because the program is structured to match the realities of domestic medical institutions, it can be immediately utilized in the healthcare field.
I have no doubt that this curriculum will develop into a representative program for basic life support training for healthcare professionals in Korea, and I anticipate that this textbook will play a significant role in ensuring even more thorough training.
This textbook has been revised based on the 2020 revised Korean CPR Guidelines, and includes academic content that should be supplemented in the Korean Association of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation basic life support training course, which is conducted according to video, as well as content that will be helpful for technical and written evaluations.
We would like to express our gratitude to all the authors who worked hard to revise the Korean Association of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation's basic life support curriculum textbook. We hope that this textbook will be of practical help in the treatment of cardiac arrest patients in the future.

Chairman of the BLS Committee of the Korean Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Association
Jo Gyu-jong