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A survey of attitudes and factors associated with successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) knowledge transfer in an older population most likely to witness cardiac arrest: design and methodology

BACKGROUND: Overall survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest rarely exceed 5%. While bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can increase survival for cardiac arrest victims by up to four times, bystander CPR rates remain low in Canada (15%). Most cardiac arrest victims are men in the...

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Autores principales: Vaillancourt, Christian, Grimshaw, Jeremy, Brehaut, Jamie C, Osmond, Martin, Charette, Manya L, Wells, George A, Stiell, Ian G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18986547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-8-13