Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the attitudes towards cardiopulmonary resuscitation with defibrillation (ACPRD-C) among female hospital nurses in Taiwan

Approximately 192,000 cases of in-hospital cardiac arrest are reported in the United States annually (Merchant et al., 2011). Survival to hospital discharge among patients who had an in-hospital cardiac arrest was estimated to be between 15% to 20% (Sandroni et al, 2007). In typical hospital settings, nurses are often the first to arrive at a scene of cardiac emergencies. Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and rapid defibrillation are correlated with higher cardiac arrest survival rates. A retrospective study of 1570 calls for rescue team in response to in-hospital cardiac arrests in a Swedish hospital showed that there was a significant association between the interval of collapse to the first defibrillation and survival to discharge from the hospital.

Source: International Emergency Nursing - February 11, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Hsing-Long Lin, Mei-Hsiang Lin, Chao-Chung Ho, Chin-Hua Fu, Malcolm Koo Source Type: research