Israel journal of medical sciences
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Comparative Study
Knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Jerusalem: is the community prepared to handle cardiac arrest?
A survey of 434 adults was conducted to determine the percentage of persons trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in Jerusalem. Of the total, 211 (48.6%) indicated they had been trained in CPR. ⋯ Half of those surveyed did not know the emergency number for summoning an ambulance, but CPR-trained persons were more likely to know than were nontrained individuals. As has been shown elsewhere, increasing the frequency of bystander-initiated CPR should lead to increased survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.