Willingness to perform mouth-to-mouth ventilation by health care providers: A survey

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 849-853

  Boucek, Charles D ^a   Phrampus, Paul ^a   Lutz, John ^a   Dongilli, Thomas ^b   Bircher, Nicholas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Mouth to mouth ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MASK; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOUTH TO MOUTH VENTILATION; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 67649973619     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.04.035     Document Type: Article

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