<unk> , advanced cardiovascular life support, often referred to by its acronym, "ACLS", refers to a set of clinical guidelines for the urgent and emergent treatment of life-threatening cardiovascular conditions that will cause or have caused<unk>  arrest, using advanced medical procedures, medications, and techniques.<unk>  expands on Basic Life Support (BLS) by adding recommendations on additional medication and advanced procedure use to the CPR guidelines that are fundamental and efficacious in BLS.<unk>  is practiced by advanced medical providers including physicians, some nurses and paramedics; these providers are usually required to hold certifications in<unk>  care. While "ACLS" is almost always semantically interchangeable with the term "Advanced Life Support" (ALS), when used distinctly,<unk>  tends to refer to the immediate<unk>  care, while ALS tends to refer to more specialized resuscitation care such as ECMO and PCI. In the EMS community, "ALS" may refer to the advanced care provided by paramedics while "BLS" may refer to the fundamental care provided by EMTs and EMRs; without these terms referring to cardiovascular-specific care.
Advanced cardiac life support
Advanced life support
Basic life support
Advanced trauma life support
Minimized extracorporeal circulation
Do not resuscitate
Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation
Cardiopulmonary bypass