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  • Importance of education of the firemen about basic life support with the use of automatic external defibrillator
    Skuhala, Robert
    Background: Sudden cardiac arrest is leading cause of death in the world thus chain of survival has an important role. Recognition of cardiac arrest is of utmost importance, next is activation of an ... emergency medical team and the start of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Chance of survival outside of the hospital diminishes for 10% for every minute of cardiac arrest without resuscitation. Firemen are geographically dispersed; they have quick response times, so they can have an important role in chain of survival. With proper education in basic life support, firemen can approach accordingly and thus save lives. Their knowledge of basic life support is to be determined with an empirical research. With this empirical research we want to determine how long the knowledge of basic life support is remembered and how it diminishes over time. We want to show the firemen as an important group that can severely enhance survival in sudden cardiac arrest. Research design: Research will be done with quantitative experimental approach. It will be done in firehouses that have automatic external defibrillator and whose members have completed a course in basic life support. Eighty (80) firemen from north-eastern region of Slovenia will be contained in the sample. Learner's electrodes will be used with automatic external defibrillator. A dummy will be placed on the floor in firehouse, on which basic life support will be performed. Individual fireman will be called by the Chief of firemen and will quickly be debriefed with the situation. Fireman will approach the dummy and start with the basic life support and then he will go after the automatic external defibrillator that he will turn on, put electrodes on the dummy and follow instructions of the automatic external defibrillator. During his performance the fireman will be observed and evaluated; his every correct decision will be checked off on a pre-prepared checklist. Fireman's personal and demographical data will be collected at the end of each trial. Ethical considerations: Research needs permission from the Heads of each firehouse, which will be part of the experiment.
    Vir: Works in progress 2014 (Str. 47-48)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2014
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 79380225

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