Abstract | OBJECTIVE: METHODS: A descriptive study was conducted through telephone interviews. Persons who attended a CPR course from January 2000 through February 2003 answered a structured questionnaire. The respondents' willingness to perform SCPR or CCPR during a witnessed cardiac arrest of an average adult stranger or that of a family member in the pre-SARS and the post-SARS era was surveyed. RESULTS: Data for 305 respondents were processed. For the scenario of cardiac arrest of an average stranger, more respondents would perform CCPR than SCPR in the pre-SARS era (83.6% vs. 61.3%, p <0.001) and in the post-SARS era (77.4% vs. 28.9%, p <0.001). In the scenario of the cardiac arrest of a family member, more would perform CCPR than SCPR in the pre-SARS era (92.8% vs. 87.2%, p <0.001) and in the post-SARS era (92.8% vs. 84.9%, p <0.001). After SARS, more respondents were unwilling to perform SCPR (p <0.001) and CCPR (p <0.001) on strangers. After SARS, more respondents were unwilling to perform SCPR on a family member (p = 0.039), but there was no difference in the preference to perform CCPR (p = 1.000). CONCLUSIONS: Concerns about SARS adversely affected the willingness of respondents to perform SCPR or CCPR on strangers and to perform SCPR on family members. Compression-only CPR was preferred to SCPR to resuscitate strangers experiencing cardiac arrest after the emergence of SARS.
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Authors | Kin-Kwan Lam, Fei-Lung Lau, Wai-Kwong Chan, Wing-Nam Wong |
Journal | Prehospital and disaster medicine
(Prehosp Disaster Med)
2007 Jul-Aug
Vol. 22
Issue 4
Pg. 325-9
ISSN: 1049-023X [Print] United States |
PMID | 18019100
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Attitude to Health
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
(education, methods, statistics & numerical data)
- Disease Outbreaks
- Family
- First Aid
(methods, statistics & numerical data)
- Heart Arrest
(therapy)
- Hong Kong
(epidemiology)
- Humans
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(epidemiology, transmission)
- Surveys and Questionnaires
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