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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Basic and Advanced Life Support (BLS, ALS) Self-Training Systems (STS) for Paramedical and Medical Personnel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

M. Scott
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA.
P. Safar
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA.
P. Berkebile
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA.
A. Sladen
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA.
J. McClintock
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA.
R. Hritz
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA.
E. Lepley
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA.

Extract

Resuscitation and acute respiratory care must be taught to all personnel involved in the management of everyday emergencies and mass casualties. Personnel range from the lay public to physician specialists. In deciding who should be taught what and how one must consider the limitations of learning ability of trainees and of resources. Mouth-to-mouth ventilation can be learned by laymen merely from viewing pictures, but better with manikin practice to perfection. CPR steps A-B-C can be effectively taught to non-physicians including laymen with instructor-coached manikin practice to perfection. but also with self-practice coached by audiotape, and to some extent even by frequent film viewing only without manikin practice. In 1972, A. Laerdal invented a CPR steps A-B-C self-training system consisting of a recording manikin, flipcharts and the coaching audiotape. We added a demonstration film to be shown before manikin practice.

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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