How best to teach CPR to schoolchildren: A systematic review

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 415-421

  Plant, Nina ^a   Taylor, Katherine ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

CPR education; CPR training; Schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; CINAHL; EMBASE; FIRST AID; HUMAN; MEDLINE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEACHING;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DEFIBRILLATORS; HUMANS; PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AS TOPIC; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCHOOLS;

EID: 84875273210     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.12.008     Document Type: Note

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