The CPR Improvement Working Group, formed to help improve cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skill performance, today announced the results of the first-ever, multi-national attitudinal survey concerning the performance of CPR by healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses and paramedics. Survey results will be presented concurrently with the American Heart Association's annual meeting in Orlando, Florida at a panel discussion of leading resuscitation experts on Monday, November 16.
“The results of this first-ever, multi-national attitudinal survey help increase understanding of the attitudes of healthcare professionals on CPR and the impact of those attitudes on CPR performance,” said Robert O’Connor, M.D., University of Virginia Medical Center and CPR Working Group Expert Council member. “Given that CPR is frequently performed by healthcare professionals, gaining this insight is critical to improving skill performance and ultimately, to saving lives.”
This quantitative survey, conducted by Ipsos, a leading global survey-based market research company, provides a broad analysis of how CPR is performed by healthcare professionals on a multi-national basis. Tested at a 95 percent confidence level with a margin of error of +/- 3 percent, the survey consisted of more than 1,000 respondents, including 454 healthcare professionals in the U.S. and 569 from the UK, France and Germany. Survey results reveal there is a discrepancy between perception and reality when it comes to CPR knowledge and skill level. Highlights of the survey include: