Purpose of the study: Timely bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), together with pre-hospital
defibrillation, represents one of the main factors associated with increased survival
rates after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). However, only one third of cardiac
arrest victims receive prompt CPR, mostly because lack of training and impeded by
fear of causing further damage, drawing an infectious disease, or providing inadequate
resuscitation. Introduction of BLS/AED training during undergraduate years could lead
to acquisition of these skills by the majority of the world's population and possibly
increase the likelihood of survival from OHCA. In our study, we wanted to investigate
the confidence of final-year medical and dental students towards applying BLS/AED.
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