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The Potential Impact of Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation (CPCR) Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Peter Safar
Peter Safar
Affiliation:
From the Resuscitation Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine;University of PittsburghPA, USA.
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This is an introduction for a one-day CPCR course for intended instructors-coordinators. The course is a pilot project using a new manual. Its goal is to explore the feasibility of instructors using semi-self-training modes to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills for the organization of basic and advanced life support courses in CPR for all types of personnel, ranging from the lay public via ambulance personnel and nurses to physician generalists and physician specialists. The American Heart Association (AHA) CPR courses for instructors-to-be were originated in Pittsburgh in the early 1960s; this present course, sponsored by the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA) CPR Committee was given in 1981. The traditional 2 to 3 days CPR instructors' courses for physicians have spread knowledge and skills slowly. We believe that the dissemination and uniformity of resuscitation training could be enhanced by wider use of self-training systems, not only for doers but also instructors-to-be.

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 70 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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