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Open Access
01-12-2014 | Poster presentation
CPR training initiative: a novel training approach of nursing health care staff in CPR/ACLS, for quality improvement in CPR in India – an observational study
Authors:
Saravana Kumar, Syed Ahmed Adil, Benny Remi Ponnappan, Anindya Das Gupta
Published in:
International Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Special Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
In India, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification is not part of routine training during medical or nursing schooling and such trainings are offered in only very few centers during selected days with limited participant numbers. It is not possible to enroll all health care staff in the hospital for such a training as it is time consuming and the cost of such training programs is high. Training in trauma and cardiac life support and certification in both adult and pediatric, would easily cost more than 22,000 Indian rupees and it is a significant cost for staff to afford it. The cheapest way would be to resort to in-house training of their health care staffs in ACLS and CPR by in-house qualified ACLS trainers with available logistics like mannequins and other equipment. …
