With their 2020 evidence-based International First Aid, Resuscitation, and Education guidelines, the Global First Aid Reference Centre (GFARC) foster harmonisation of first aid practices across the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies,

On 12 March, Cochrane First Aid and Cochrane Pre-hospital and Emergency Care hosted a workshop at Secours Expo 2022 in Paris, France. Since 2015, the Secours Expo exhibition has brought together all categories of professionals and all emergency trades in the same unit of time and place.

Although we did not anticipate it in 2020, we found ourselves still living with the COVID-19 pandemic throughout 2021. Providing reliable scientific evidence to everyone, including laypeople, in a timely manner remained an important task for us. In addition, we have further promoted the importance of evidence-based first aid, both in the evidence and first aid communities.

The team of Cochrane First Aid wishes you Happy Holidays and all the best for 2022!

Searching for relevant studies to answer a specific research question may require sifting through numerous database records. In order to prevent the screening process becoming too time-consuming, systematic literature reviewers may decide to use search filters. A search filter is a fixed set of terms used to identify records that share a certain feature (for example, study design). The quality and validity of a search filter depends on how well it identifies records that are relevant (sensitivity) and how well it excludes records that are not (specificity).

20 October marks World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day, a global initiative raising awareness for better evidence to inform healthcare policy, practice and decision making. It is an opportunity to educate a broad audience about the importance of evidence-based healthcare and to encourage debate and discussion amongst the global evidence community.The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of:

The second Saturday in September marks World First Aid Day. Our collaborating centre, the Global First Aid Reference Centre (GFARC) of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, is in charge to coordinate this event and provide resources to national Red Cross Societies.

From this year on, 25 July marks the new UN-recognised "World Drowning Prevention Day

After a year of hard work, the Cochrane First Aid team will take a short summer break from July 1 until July 19. If you want to contact us, send us an email (cochrane.firstaid@gmail.com) and we will answer your message as soon as we are back in the office.