The Egyptian Pediatic Advanced Life Support

- Methods

A comprehensive search for guidelines was undertaken to identify the most relevant guidelines to consider for

adaptation.

  Inclusion/exclusion criteria followed in the search and retrieval of guidelines to be adapted: 

·       Selecting only evidence-based guidelines (guideline must include a report on systematic literature searches and explicit links between individual recommendations and their supporting evidence) 

·       Selecting only national and/or international guidelines 

·       Specific range of dates for publication (using Guidelines published or updated  in the last 10 years)

·       Selecting peer reviewed publications only 

·       Selecting guidelines written in English  language 

·       Excluding guidelines written by a single author not on behalf of an organization in order to be valid and comprehensive, a guideline ideally requires multidisciplinary input

·       Excluding guidelines published without references as the panel needs to know whether a thorough literature review was conducted and whether current evidence was used in the preparation of the recommendations. 

 The following characteristics of the retrieved guidelines were summarized in a table:

•      Developing organization/authors

•      Date of publication, posting, and release

•      Country/language of publication

•      Dates of the search used by the source guideline developers

All retrieved Guidelines were screened and appraised using AGREE II instrument (www.agreetrust.org) by at least two members. the panel decided a cut-off point or rank of the guidelines (any guideline scoring above 50% on the rigor dimension was retained). The GDG decided to adapt the ERC 2025¹³, AHA 2025²⁰, ILCOR¹⁴, and CoSTR¹⁴ recommendations adapted to the local context.