First aid knowledge among industry workers in Greece

Industrial Health

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 327-332

  Hatzakis, Kostas D ^a   Kritsotakis, Evangelos I ^b   Angelaki, Helen P ^c   Tzanoudaki, Irini K ^c   Androulaki, Zacharenia D ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b TEI of Crete ^*  (Greece)

^c Nursing Department of TEI of Crete   (Greece)

Author keywords

CPR; First aid; Industry; Occupational medicine; Work accidents; Workers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COMPRESSION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIRST AID; GREECE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PHYSICIAN; PULSE PRESSURE; RESUSCITATION; WORKPLACE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EDUCATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIRST AID; GREECE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH;

EID: 18744386118     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.43.327     Document Type: Article

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