Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support, but may be less confident with basic life support skills that are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This article, ...

Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support but may be less confident with paediatric basic life support skills, which are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

鹿児島県奄美市名瀬の金久中学校（当田進一校長、生徒242人）で3日、一次救命処置（BLS、ベーシックライフサポート）教育があった。大島地区消防組合消防本部の職員5人と奄美市消防団の女性小隊3人が講師となり、全校生徒を対象に学年別で講話と実技の ...

栃木県足利市西部の葉鹿公民館でBLS（ベーシック・ライフ・サポート）講習が開かれ、同地区周辺の消防団員や福祉施設職員、公務員ら十八人が受講した。 BLSとは、心肺停止や呼吸停止状態の人に対する一次救命処置。受講者らは心肺蘇生法や自動 ...

While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare — about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S. — the outcomes when it happens outside of a hospital are estimated to be under 20%.

The rates in which nursing home staff perform CPR or use an automated external defibrillator on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest residents “were not ideal,” according to a new study. Researchers say ...