Factors influencing Chinese university students ’ willingness to performing bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Sudden cardiac arrest results in millions of deaths worldwide each year and is a leading cause of premature death, with large disparities in survival between less privileged and more privileged groups (Berdowski et al., 2010). Every hour in the United States, 38 people have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), and less than 1 in 10 survive (Mozaffarian et al., 2015). In China OHCA has become the most common reason for sudden death (Zhang et al., 2010) claiming an estimated 544,000 lives annually (Hua et al., 2009) and 80% of the people suffering OHCA have died before being treated by emergency medical service (EMS) personnel (Zhou et al., 2011).

Source: International Emergency Nursing - April 8, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Cui Lu, Ying-hui Jin, Xiao-tong Shi, Wen-jing Ma, Yun-yun Wang, Wei Wang, Yao Zhang Source Type: research