Professor Charles Deakin is consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care at University Hospital Southampton, and Professor of Resuscitation and Prehospital Emergency Medicine at Southampton University and Divisional Medical Director of South Central Ambulance Service.Charles has been a member of the Executive Committee of the RC(UK) since 2001 and until recently chaired the ALS Committee for the European Resuscitation Council, Co-Chairing the ILCOR ALS Committee for the 2005 and 2010 guidelines revision. His research interests include prehospital airway management, drugs and mechanical devices in ALS, defibrillation, and delivery of bystander resuscitation instructions by telephone.
