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Final year medical students in Italy may not yet be adequately prepared to perform CPR and treat out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Highlights the need for adequate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training among final year medical students in Italy.
We read with interest the paper by Perkins GD and colleagues on a series of initiatives to improve outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in which teaching cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to schoolchildren play a key role.1 Evidence in the literature confirms that teaching CPR in school saves lives.2 If even schoolchildren know CPR, even more so a young doctor should know how to treat a cardiac arrest. However, since we …
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Contri et al. (2017) conducted a letter in Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. CPR training was evaluated. Final year medical students in Italy may not yet be adequately prepared to perform CPR and treat out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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