Knowledge and attitudes towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A cross sectional survey on health care providers in clinical practice

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a critical, life-saving skill for healthcare professionals (HCPs) in emergency departments (EDs) and other health care settings are expected to have profound knowledge of the CPR guidelines. A cross-sectional study was carried out among 160 providers assess level attitude towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Data analysis were done by SPSS software version-20. Total respondents (HCP) them 80 doctors nurses. Among respondents, 69% female 31% male. Regarding training, 51% 49% had trained CPR. performing CPR, 58% performed 66.2% nurses clinical practice. meaning majority (92%) knew correctly as ventilation chest compression. More than half about cardiac massage apply strong compression wall certain interval. component nearly two third (65%) ventilation. sequence CPR,71 % incorrectly Airway-Breathing-Compression (A-B-C) 29.38% Compression-Airway-Breathing (C-A-B) total 62.5 average knowledge, 18.12% good 19.38% poor on training associated significantly with knowledge. 70.62% neutral attitude, 15.0% positive 14.38% negative perform Doctors more knowledgeable nurses, they also opinions The showed that taken both providers. (53%) dissimilarity attitudes suggest courses should be regularly provided specially focusing country.