At the Emergency Medicine Trainees Association Annual Conference this April Jasmeet Soar, Chair of the Resuscitation Council UK, spoke about recent advances in resuscitation.

Janos P Baombe (EMJ associate editor) spoke to him about the issues he raised, including minimising hands-off time, the role of capnography, the importance of therapeutic hypothermia and the future of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).