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Seo, Lee, Cho, Kim, Shin, Hyun, Kim, Kim, Jang, Lee, and Kim: The Survey and Evaluation of CPR Skill in Dental Students
Original Article

Journal of the Korean Dental Society of Anesthesiology 2012; 12(4): 209-214.

Published online: 30 May 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17245/jkdsa.2012.12.4.209

The Survey and Evaluation of CPR Skill in Dental Students

Kwang-Suk Seo*, Jung-Man Lee*, Kyoung Ah Cho*, Hyun-Jeong Kim*, Teo Jeon Shin, Hong-Keun Hyun, Young-Jae Kim, Jeong-Wook Kim, Ki-Taeg Jang, Sang-Hoon Lee, Chong-Chul Kim

Department of Pediatric dentistry, Seoul National University Dental Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

*Department of Dental Anesthesiology, Seoul National University Dental Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding Author: Teo Jeon Shin, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Seoul National University, School of Dentistry, 101 Daehaka-roJongno-gu, Seoul, 110-768, Korea. Tel: +82.2.2072.2607, Fax: +82.2.744.3599, snmc94@snu.ac.kr

Received 24 December 2012       Revised 27 December 2012       Accepted 28 December 2012

Copyright © 2012 Journal of the Korean Dental Society of Anesthesiology

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Abstract

Background

This study evaluates the existing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) knowledge and skills of 1 st year dental students and also compares their CPR performance skill with those of 4 th year students.

Methods

Incoming 1 st year and 4 th year dental students were surveyed about the level of their CPR knowledge before conventional CPR instruction. After we trained them for CPR performance, we tested CPR performance skill to randomly selected 10 1st year and 4 th year dental students and compared their CPR performance.

Results

Overall CPR knowledge was low for both 1 st and 4 th year dental students. Especially, only 1 among 89 fourth year dental students answered the right sequence of CPR revised in 2010. Overall CPR performance was relatively low for both 1 st and 4 th year dental students. Irrespective of previous experiences of CPR education, their CPR performance was not statistically different.

Conclusions

Retraining of CPR is a necessity. Information about the existing CPR knowledge for dental students will aid in establishing the goal of future CPR training and improve the current deficiency.

Keywords: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Education, Training

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