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Article: Retention and use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills in parents of infants at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest.
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- Pediatric Nursing
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) coupled with the prompt delivery of advanced cardiac life support significantly improves the prognosis for infants and children suffering a cardiac or respiratory arrest outside the hospital (Hickey, Cohen, Strausbaugh, & Dietrich, 1995; Wolfer & Visintainer, 1975). This reality is particularly true of infants, who are most likely to suffer a respiratory arrest that responds quickly to resuscitation (Innes, Summers, Boyd, & Myolyneux, 1993). Findings from all studies to date indicate that the prompt delivery of CPR to an infant or child results in lower mortality and fewer neurological complications (Friesen, Duncan, Tweed, & Bristow, ...