What is the best way to tell when your two minutes are up? A randomized trial of telling time in Basic Life Support cycles of two minutes
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Background The current resuscitation guidelines state that basic life support (BLS) should be conducted in two minute cycles. This regime dictates the frequencies of medicine administration and defibrillation during advanced life support in cardiac arrests. Earlier work has shown that participants in a cardiac arrest teams lose their time perception and both overand underestimate elapsed time. We therefore investigated the best way to tell time during BLS.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 18 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010