Hospital employees' theoretical knowledge on what to do in an in-hospital cardiac arrest
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Hospital employees' theoretical knowledge on what to do in an in-hospital cardiac arrest
BACKGROUND Guidelines recommend that all health care professionals should be able to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), including the use of an automated external defibrillator. Theoretical knowledge of CPR is then necessary.The aim of this study was to investigate how much theoretical knowledge in CPR would increase among all categories of health care professionals lacking training i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1757-7241
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-18-43