A Study to Assess the Effect of Planned Teaching on Knowledge and Beginning Skill Regarding "Hands Only-Cpr" among the General Public from Selected Area of Kankavli

ABSTRACT

Cardiac arrest is a condition where heart suddenly stops, and the person just dies. About 10% of the deaths in India is due to sudden cardiac arrest which is also the most common factor of death in the world. In this unusual time of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is concern about the risk of a public responder contracting Covid-19 from a person when providing CPR. The vast majority of cardiac arrests (over 80%) will be in the home setting and responders are likely to be friends or family. Knowing how to perform "hands-only CPR" can save a life. A cardiac patient's chance of becoming a long-term survivor are more than doubled if someone on the scene administers prompt CPR. Healthcare workers already are at the highest risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2, According to the AHA, and administering CPR creates additional risks, CPR can involve a number of aerosol-generating procedures that include performing chest compressions, providing positive-pressure ventilation, and establishing an advanced airway through intubation. Resuscitation can require providers to work in close proximity to one another and the patient;and the urgency to resuscitate a patient in cardiac arrest can result in lapses in infection-controlprotocols. Copyright © 2022, Anka Publishers. All rights reserved.