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Gender and age-specific aspects of awareness and knowledge in basic life support

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  • Mario Krammel
  • Sebastian Schnaubelt
  • David Weidenauer
  • Markus Winnisch
  • Matthias Steininger
  • Jakob Eichelter
  • Thomas Hamp
  • Raphael van Tulder
  • Patrick Sulzgruber

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Background: The ‘chain of survival’—including early call for help, early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and early defibrillation—represents the most beneficial approach for favourable patient outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Despite increasing numbers of publicly accessible automated external defibrillators (AED) and interventions to increase public awareness for basic life support (BLS), the number of their use in real-life emergency situations remains low. Methods: In this prospective population-based cross-sectional study, a total of 501 registered inhabitants of Vienna (Austria) were randomly approached via telephone calls between 08/2014 and 09/2014 and invited to answer a standardized questionnaire in order to identify public knowledge and awareness of BLS and AED-use. Results: We found that more than 52 percent of participants would presume OHCA correctly and would properly initiate BLS attempts. Of alarming importance, only 33 percent reported that they would be willing to perform CPR and 50 percent would use an AED device. There was a significantly lower willingness to initiate BLS attempts (male: 40% vs. female: 25%; OR: 2.03 [95%CI: 1.39–2.98]; p

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  • Mario Krammel & Sebastian Schnaubelt & David Weidenauer & Markus Winnisch & Matthias Steininger & Jakob Eichelter & Thomas Hamp & Raphael van Tulder & Patrick Sulzgruber, 2018. "Gender and age-specific aspects of awareness and knowledge in basic life support," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(6), pages 1-9, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0198918
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198918
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