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Effect of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome on Bystander Willingness to Perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)–Is Compression–Only Preferred to Standard CPR?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Kin-Kwan Lam ,
Fei-Lung Lau ,
Wai-Kwong Chan  and
Wing-Nam Wong
Kin-Kwan Lam*
Affiliation:
Senior Medical Officer, Accident and Emergency Department, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
Fei-Lung Lau
Affiliation:
Chief of Service and Consultant, Accident and Emergency Department, United Christian Hospital, HongKong
Wai-Kwong Chan
Affiliation:
Head of Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
Wing-Nam Wong
Affiliation:
Medical Officer, Accident and Emergency Department, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
*
Dr. Lam Kin-kwan Accident and Emergency DepartmentUnited Christian Hospital130 Hip Wo StreetKwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong E-mail: kklam_uch@yahoo.com
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Abstract

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Objective:

The effect of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak on the willingness of laypersons to provide bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) using standard CPR (SCPR) or compression-only CPR (CCPR) was evaluated.The preferred type of SCPR in the post-SARS era was assessed.

Methods:

A descriptive study was conducted through telephone interviews. Persons who attended a CPR coursefrom January 2000 through February 2003 answered a structured questionnaire. The respondents' willingnessto 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 CCPRon 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.

Keywords

bystander CPRcardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)chest compressioncompression-only CPRresuscitationsevere acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Type
Original Research
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 2007 , pp. 325 - 329
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2007

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