Acute medicine & surgery
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Acute medicine & surgery · Jan 2020
Environmental maintenance with effective and useful zoning to protect patients and medical staff from COVID-19 infection.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated all over the world, and global health-care systems have become overwhelmed with potentially infectious patients seeking testing and care. It is essential to set up effective and useful zoning to prevent the spread of infection to and from medical staff or other patients with effective use of standard precautions with personal protective equipment (PPE). ⋯ Special wards and rooms should be set up for future protection of medical staff and other patients, and prevent the explosion of COVID-19 infection with effective and useful zoning with PPE.
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Acute medicine & surgery · Jan 2020
A pilot study of Practice While Watch based 50 min school quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation classroom training: a cluster randomized control trial.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in schools can increase the rate of bystander CPR. We assessed whether a "Quality CPR (QCPR) Classroom" can support CPR performance by students trained by a teacher who is not a CPR instructor. ⋯ Using a QCPR Classroom to enhance CPR teaching by a non-CPR-instructor results in similar or better outcomes compared to using a CPR instructor. Use of a Practice While Watch QCPR Classroom will provide adequate quality in preparing students for CPR.
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Acute medicine & surgery · Jan 2020
Patient outcomes of school-age, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: A nationwide study of schoolchildren as witnesses.
Using the data from the All-Japan Utstein Registry, this study evaluates the neurologically favourable patient outcomes and associated factors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with Japanese schoolchildren as witnesses. ⋯ Patient outcomes did not differ significantly between schoolchildren- and other-bystander-witnessed cases of school-age OHCA. Although schoolchildren as witnesses might not be inferior to other bystanders in school-age OHCA, further studies are needed to examine the effect of bystander CPR by schoolchildren and basic life support education in schools.