Basic Life Support
Quality of Chest Compressions Differs over Time between Advanced and Basic Life Support
... Purpose: According to guideline recommendations, chest compressions (CC) during cardiopul- monary resuscitation (CPR) should be performed at a rate of 100 - 120 per minute, with a CC frac- tion (CCF) of ≥80%. The aim of ...
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Effective planned teaching programme on knowledge &practice of basic life support among students in Arakkonam
... Suggestions: Nurses should be motivated to take keen interest in preparing different teaching strategies suitable for the schools as well as community on BLS. 171 Using different teaching strategies would help in ...
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Effectiveness of Training Program on Knowledge and Practice regarding Basic Life Support (BLS) Among Nursing Student
... The data presented in Table 2, & fig.1,2 indicates that the mean post test knowledge scores (26.7) of students related to Basic Life Support (BLS) is higher than the mean pretest knowledge scores ...
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Fire fighters as basic life support responders: A study of successful implementation
... using Basic Life Support (BLS) responders: lay persons trained to perform BLS (chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth ventilation) and use an automatic external defibrillator (AED) (which is able to ...
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Knowledge and Attitude of Dental Students and Staffs towards Basic life Support(BLS)
... The present study assessed knowledge of students and faculty regarding BLS in a private dental college in southern Kerala.The study showed that dental students and faculty in the study group were lacking in the awareness ...
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What should be included in the assessment of laypersons’ paediatric basic life support skills? Results from a Delphi consensus study
... In the first two rounds, the PBLS set of skills was referred to as “Paediatric cardiac arrest management for laypersons”. Expert comments from the second round suggested that the term “paediatric cardiac arrest ...
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Quality of basic life support when using different commercially available public access defibrillators
... Easy Life (Schiller AG, Baar, Switzerland), AED Plus (Zoll Med- ical Corporation, Chelmsford, MA, USA), and Cardiolife AED 2100 (Nihon Kohden Corporation, Tokio, ...pre-scripted basic life ...
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Evaluation of a newly developed media-supported 4-step approach for basic life support training
... Existing data about the ideal training methods for basic life support (BLS) are still insufficient; the duration of BLS training that is adequate remains unknown. Pedagogic training methods are ...
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Direct mail improves knowledge of basic life support guidelines in general practice: a randomised study
... Background: Implementation of new guidelines into clinical practice is often incomplete. Direct mail is a simple way of providing information to physicians and may improve implementation of new guidelines on basic ...
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AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) AMONG STUDENTS AT MAJMMAH UNIVERSITY: STATISTICAL STUDY
... 2010). Basic life support (BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for victims of life-threating illness or injuries until they can be given full medical care at ...
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Comparison of peer-led versus professional-led training in basic life support for medical students
... Providing basic life support (BLS) is an essential skill for the survival of a patient after cardiac arrest. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, one of the important skills in BLS, is associated ...
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Evaluation of public awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards basic life support: a cross-sectional study
... Public awareness is of great importance, especially for life-saving information and skills. Globally, many coun- tries emphasize related topics in educational institutions and workplaces. Death from sudden cardiac ...
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<p>Training of Basic Life Support Among Lay Undergraduates: Development and Implementation of an Evidence-Based Protocol</p>
... Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is one of the simple and effective ways to treat cardiac arrest (CA) due to a variety of causes. 1 For critically ill patients, especially those with cardiac arrest or respiratory ...
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Peers versus professional training of basic life support in Syria: a randomized controlled trial
... Methods: A randomized controlled trial with blinded assessors was conducted on 72 medical students from the pre-clinical years (1st to 3rd years in Syria) at Syrian Private University. Students were randomly assigned to ...
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The role of a checklist for assessing the quality of basic life support performance: an observational cohort study
... In order to improve the currently insufficient imple- mentation of CPR measures in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients in most countries, it is essential that lay rescuers receive efficient and extensive ...
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Practical examination of bystanders performing Basic Life Support in Germany: a prospective manikin study
... The basic measures of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (Basic Life Support – BLS) by lay people are therefore definitely part of an effective emergency service of a patient needing ...
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Learning by teaching basic life support: a non-randomized controlled trial with medical students
... the basic health unit profes- sionals was an urgency and emergency training ...techniques, Basic Life Support (BLS), has not traditionally been carried out during high school, only being ...
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Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge and Practice of Adult Basic Life Support Among Staff Nurses
... Also, it was more clear from the result that there was no significant association beween pretest knowledge and the selected demographic variables like age, sex, education, years of experience and clinical area of work. ...
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Is advanced life support better than basic life support in prehospital care? A systematic review
... (advanced life support) and BLS- (basic life support) levels according to the methods ...of life or patient’s capacity to perform daily ...
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Part 11: Pediatric Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality
... pediatric basic life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality: 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular ...
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