Authors :
Lucrecia Estefanía Orellana Chica; Isabel Cristina Mesa-Cano; Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel
Volume/Issue :
Volume 6 - 2021, Issue 5 - May
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Abstract :
Cardiorespiratory arrest occupies one of the
main causes of mortality, the knowledge of the nursing
staff plays an essential role to perform an optimal
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A quantitative
descriptive study was carried out with the aim of
demonstrating the knowledge of cardiopulmonary
resuscitation in the nurses of a hospital in Zamora
Chinchipe. An anonymous survey was applied via
Google Forms to 40 operating nurses, the data were
tabulated in SPSS 20 and Excel. It was found that 27.5%
were male personnel, the most notable age group was
between 31 and 40 years (60%), the area where there are
more personnel was in the emergency room and
obstetric center (35%), 50% had experience less than 5
years of work, only 1 in 4 has taken a CPR course, and
72.5% have participated in CPR in their area. The
knowledge regarding recognition and definitions of
cardiorespiratory arrest and CPR were correct in 80%,
70% and 47.5% respectively; knowledge regarding the
causes of CRP and frequent complications of CPR were
between 67.5% and 87.5%. Only 50% knew the correct
sequence of CPR, only 30% knew the relationship
between compression and ventilation cycles. Airway
patency maneuvers and AED patching were correctly
indicated between 37.5% and 47.5%. It is concluded that
the knowledge of recognition and definition are good,
but those of actions and maneuvers to be carried out in
CPR are low
Keywords :
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, American Heart Association, Cardiac Arrest, Knowledge.
Cardiorespiratory arrest occupies one of the
main causes of mortality, the knowledge of the nursing
staff plays an essential role to perform an optimal
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A quantitative
descriptive study was carried out with the aim of
demonstrating the knowledge of cardiopulmonary
resuscitation in the nurses of a hospital in Zamora
Chinchipe. An anonymous survey was applied via
Google Forms to 40 operating nurses, the data were
tabulated in SPSS 20 and Excel. It was found that 27.5%
were male personnel, the most notable age group was
between 31 and 40 years (60%), the area where there are
more personnel was in the emergency room and
obstetric center (35%), 50% had experience less than 5
years of work, only 1 in 4 has taken a CPR course, and
72.5% have participated in CPR in their area. The
knowledge regarding recognition and definitions of
cardiorespiratory arrest and CPR were correct in 80%,
70% and 47.5% respectively; knowledge regarding the
causes of CRP and frequent complications of CPR were
between 67.5% and 87.5%. Only 50% knew the correct
sequence of CPR, only 30% knew the relationship
between compression and ventilation cycles. Airway
patency maneuvers and AED patching were correctly
indicated between 37.5% and 47.5%. It is concluded that
the knowledge of recognition and definition are good,
but those of actions and maneuvers to be carried out in
CPR are low
Keywords :
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, American Heart Association, Cardiac Arrest, Knowledge.
