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Critical care medicine · Jun 1979
Comparative StudyImpact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training on resuscitation.
- W N Bernhard, H Turndorf, J E Cottrell, F Vea, and A Basak.
- Crit. Care Med. 1979 Jun 1; 7 (6): 257-62.
AbstractRestoration of adequate spontaneous circulation after "arrest" and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of 546 patients before and 460 patients after initiation of a CPR training course in a 500-bed city hospital is reported. Between January 1972 and June 1976, adequate circulation after CPR was present in 38.6% of patients before and 50.4% after training ICU nurses and house physicians in modern resuscitation techniques. Factors crucial to resumption of adequate circulation are: (1) CPR training of all hospital personnel so that effective CPR can be started immediately after recognition of an arrest situation, (2) production of a palpable pulse with closed chest cardiac massage, and (3) prompt effective therapy so that the time interval between arrest and resumption of adequate spontaneous circulation is short.
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