Prof Charles Deakin is consultant in cardiac anaesthesia and cardiac intensive care at
University Hospital Southampton, Divisional Medical Director for South Central
Ambulance Service and Medical Director for Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air
Ambulance. He is also Honorary Professor of Resuscitation and Prehospital
Emergency Medicine at Southampton University where his main academic interests
are cardiac arrest, major trauma and resuscitation.
Charles is a lead author for UK paramedic, national and European resuscitation
guidelines and is a fellow of the Resuscitation Council (UK) and European
Resuscitation Council. He co-chaired the ILCOR ALS guidelines in 2005 and 2010 and
remains a member of the ALS working Group where he is also the ILCOR domain lead
for defibrillation. He was a member of the Trial Management Group for the recently
published PARAMEDIC2 study and Trial Steering Committee for the AIRWAYS2 study.