Open AccessAwareness about basic life support and emergency medical services and its associated factors among students in a tertiary care hospital in South India
Author(s) -
Akshatha Rao Aroor,
Rama Prakasha Saya,
Nazir Attar,
Ganesh Kumar Saya,
Manikandan Ravinanthanan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.136857
Subject(s) - basic life support , internship , medicine , advanced cardiac life support , cross sectional study , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , univariate analysis , curriculum , tertiary level , descriptive statistics , family medicine , nursing , medical education , psychology , multivariate analysis , emergency medicine , resuscitation , pedagogy , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , pathology
The knowledge and skills about the basic life support (BLS) and the advanced life support are the most important determining factors of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) success rates.