THE GUIDELINES FOR CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITAtion (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) are probably the most widely implemented and best-known guidelines in medicine. In the setting of cardiac arrest, health care professionals want and need simple, practical, and effective guidelines. As the American Heart Association (AHA) and International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) re...

AIM To evaluate associations between rescuers' anthropometric characteristics and chest compressions (CC) depth according to 2010 resuscitation guidelines. METHODS 186 medical and pharmacy students, never trained in basic life support (BLS) before, underwent video self-instruction training. The participants were asked to perform a BLS test on a manikin connected to a PC for 6 min immediately ...

AIM To determine the efficacy of immediate, standardized, corrective audio feedback training as supplied by the voice advisory manikin (VAM) compared to high quality standardized instructor feedback training for the initial acquisition of 1-rescuer lay provider pediatric BLS skills. MATERIALS AND METHODS Lay care providers of hospitalized children 8-18 years were randomized to VAM (n=23) or s...

OBJECTIVE We compared training using a voice advisory manikin (VAM) with an instructor-led (IL) course in terms of acquisition of initial cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills, as defined by the 2010 resuscitation guidelines. METHODS This study was a randomized, controlled, blinded, parallel-group trial. We recruited 82 first-year emergency medical technician students and distributed the...

To increase cardiopulmonary arrest survival, the American Heart Association developed basic and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) courses that expose participants to realistic learning situations. This experimental study compared results of two ACLS classes on measures of knowledge (content exam) and resuscitation skills (performance exam). Both the control and experimental groups consisted ...

Context: This study aimed to provide an overview of cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation (CPCR) training methods for nurses in Iran and introduce some innovations using improve nurses’ knowledge skills clinical settings. Cardiac arrest is one the most common causes death worldwide. Evidence shows that despite support improving treating cardiac recent years, overall survival rate after it stil...

Anthropomorphized, or human-like artefacts, have been used in teaching and training of medical skills for a long time. The most famous artefact used today is probably the Resusci ® Anne CPR training manikin, which is used for training of resuscitation skills. However, what has changed over the lifespan of these artefacts is the level of human-like features in them. All around the globe, highly ...

Introduction Early and effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) increases both survival rate post–cardiac arrest quality of life. This study aims to assess the current knowledge ability physicians nurses in health centers (HCs) operated by Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) Doha, Qatar, perform CPR. Methodology consists two parts. The first part is a descriptive cross-sectional survey ...