Open AccessAwareness among resident doctors with regards to cardiac defibrillators
Author(s) -
Rakesh Garg,
Anju Bhalotra,
Amit Pruthi,
Poonam Bhadoria,
Raktima Anand,
Nishkarsh Gupta
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
saudi journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1658-354X
pISSN - 0975-3125
DOI - 10.4103/1658-354x.71574
Subject(s) - medicine , audit , medical emergency , defibrillation , referral , family medicine , cardiology , management , economics
Electrical defibrillation is the most important therapy for patients in cardiac arrest. The audit was aimed to assess awareness among residents with respect to routine preuse checking of cardiac defibrillators.