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Abstract
The importance of compliance with BLS is to help maintaining myocardial and cerebral oxygenation and perfusion until Advanced Life Support (ALS) where personnel and equipment are available to reverse the underlying cause of arrest. Compliance with BLS refers to strict adherence of the health care providers to the basic life support guidelines. The need for compliance with basic life support is mandatory to increase the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and improve the survival rate. Thus, emphasis must be placed on the steps that enhance compliance with basic life support.
Nurses are generally the first responders to a cardiac arrest and initiate basic life support while waiting for the advanced cardiac life support team to arrive. Throughout the years, as CPR guidelines are altered, the roles of the multidisciplinary team members are also subjective to change. Factors such as improvement in nursing education, increased needs for expert nurses due to the requirements of specialized fields of medicine, and an increase noted in the autonomy of the nursing role have led to a change in nurses’ responsibilities during CPR.
Materials and method:
A descriptive design was used to identify nurses’ compliance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines in the emergency and critical care units. This study was carried out in three critical care units of Alexandria Main University Hospital namely: causality ICU, general ICU and coronary care unit and two emergency units namely: triage unit and emergency anesthetic ICU. Subjects of the study consisted of a convenience sample of 90 critical care and emergency nurses including the different nursing categories in the previously mentioned emergency and critical care units who were involved in providing direct patient care were included in this study.