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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 1/2010

Open Access 01-12-2010 | Original research

Hospital employees' theoretical knowledge on what to do in an in-hospital cardiac arrest

Authors: Marie-Louise Södersved Källestedt, Andreas Rosenblad, Jerzy Leppert, Johan Herlitz, Mats Enlund

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine | Issue 1/2010

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Abstract

Background

Guidelines recommend that all health care professionals should be able to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), including the use of an automated external defibrillator. Theoretical knowledge of CPR is then necessary.
The aim of this study was to investigate how much theoretical knowledge in CPR would increase among all categories of health care professionals lacking training in CPR, in an intervention hospital, after a systematic standardised training. Their results were compared with the staff at a control hospital with an ongoing annual CPR training programme.

Methods

Health care professionals at two hospitals, with a total of 3144 employees, answered a multiple-choice questionnaire before and after training in CPR. Bootstrapped chi-square tests and Fisher's exact test were used for the statistical analyses.

Results

In the intervention hospital, physicians had the highest knowledge pre-test, but other health care professionals including nurses and assistant nurses reached a relatively high level post-test. Improvement was inversely related to the level of previous knowledge and was thus most marked among other health care professionals and least marked among physicians.
The staff at the control hospital had a significantly higher level of knowledge pre-test than the intervention hospital, whereas the opposite was found post-test.

Conclusions

Overall theoretical knowledge increased after systematic standardised training in CPR. The increase was more pronounced for those without previous training and for those staff categories with the least medical education.
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Metadata
Title
Hospital employees' theoretical knowledge on what to do in an in-hospital cardiac arrest
Authors
Marie-Louise Södersved Källestedt
Andreas Rosenblad
Jerzy Leppert
Johan Herlitz
Mats Enlund
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-43

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