Survey of the awareness level of nurses about last guidelines of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in educational hospitals

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is the most important skill of clinical staff and it is necessary for them to be aware of its last changes. This study had been done to determine the awareness level of nurses of the last 2010 CPR guidelines.

This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 321 samples, which had been chosen with sample randomly method in Kermanshah’s hospitals in 2011. The tools for collecting data were a researcher made questionnaire with face and content and reliability of (r=%74). Data was analyzed by STATA-11 software and ANOVA, Tukay,Tamhane and Bonferoni tests.

Level of awareness was classified to: %20.2 excellent, %65.4 good, %14 moderate and %3 weak. There was no significant statistical correlation between level of awareness and age, work experience and graduate degree, but level of awareness was higher in nurses that had experience of passing CPR training, doing or observing it (p<0.001). The most score of awareness was related to external cardiac massage.

It is suggested that to teach CPR according to guidelines of 2010 in nurses postgraduate training and to have more emphasis on electroshock therapy and Automatic External Defibrillation (AED), Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) and combitube intubations, reasons of termination and undoing of CPR interaoseus injection and induced hypothermia