background: cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation (cpcr) training is essential for all hospital workers, especially junior residents who might become the manager of the resuscitation team. in our center, the traditional cpcr knowledge training curriculum for junior residents up to 5 years ago was lecture-based and had some faults. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of a problem-based meth...

background: considering the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental practice, and the essential need of acquiring competency in basic life support (bls), the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of bls workshop on the skills of dental students in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation. methods: in this switching replication experimental study, students in the 5th year of mashhad d...

objective: in this trial, we intend to assess the effect of simulation-based education approach on advanced cardiovascular life support skills among medical students. methods: through convenient sampling method, 40 interns of mashhad university of medical sciences in their emergency medicine rotation (from september to december 2012) participated in this study. advanced cardiovascular life supp...

background. for several years, educators have criticized the lecture-based approach to teaching and learning. experts have rightly stressed on acquisition of a number of critical skills rather than focusing on lectures. purpose. to compare students’ performance after self-education with vcd and manikin, with thei performance after standard bls training. methods. in this randomized controlled st...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effectiveness of a "cardiopulmonary resuscitation song" in improving the basic life support skills of secondary school students. METHODS This pre-test/post-test control design study enrolled secondary school students from two middle schools randomly chosen in Córdoba, Andalucia, Spain. The study included 608 teenagers. A random sample of 87 students in the interventi...

results ecls was initiated at a mean of 324.15 ± 197.8 (110 - 950) min from initial trauma. in 4 patients, ecls treatment failed due to an incapability to maintain adequate ecls flow and patient perfusion. in the other 16 patients efficiently supported by ecls, the cardiac index, mean arterial pressure, lactate concentration, pao2, paco2, and ph showed significant improvement with normal values...

Available literature suggests a need for both initial cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and refresher courses. The establishment of a pediatric chain of survival for victims of cardiopulmonary arrest is the focus of this technical report and is advocated in the accompanying policy statement. Immediate bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation for victims of cardiac arrest improves survival f...

Emergency ultrasound is suggested to be an important tool in critical care medicine. Time-dependent scenarios occur during preresuscitation care, during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and in postresuscitation care. Suspected myocardial insufficiency due to acute global, left, or right heart failure, pericardial tamponade, and hypovolemia should be identified. These diagnoses cannot be made with...