Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1937. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [157]-[159]).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-42).

Thesis (doctoral)--Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität zu München, 1939. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-[50]).

Thesis (doctoral)--Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität zu München, 1939. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-[50]).

In cases involving the rescue of people in need of immediate medical care, it is often thought that the responsibility to save the lives of the imperilled falls to advanced professionals, such as paramedics, doctors, nurses, etc. This tells only part of the story, however, as in many cases the first point of contact for a person under duress is non-professional bystanders – average people with often little to no training in first aid or medicine. If the first point of contact is the bystander, do these bystanders have an obligation to help? Even if we assume that it is good to help people in need, the answer is not immediately obvious. Matters become more complicated when the bystander does have training that would make their intervention efficacious in helping the victim. Are they expected to help because they are trained and could presumably help more? This thesis seeks to examine this question and argue the following two conclusions: first, in terms of rescue cases, trained bystanders, whom I call informed rescuers, are morally required to act because of their training; and second, given the special role of knowledge in rescue, those who do not possess training in first aid can be held morally blameworthy for failing to know how to act in rescue cases. Because of this, everyone ought to learn basic first aid.

Background According to data from Department of Health, in 2011 heart diseases was the second commonest leading cause of death in Hong Kong [13]. Shortening the time from cardiac arrest to Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) could increase the chance of survival. If the brain of the patient who suffers from cardiac arrest does not receive oxygen within 4 minutes, severe brain damage might occur [14]. In some countries like US and Finland, dispatcher will give CPR instruction to caller when cardiac arrest is recognized. Therefore, the patient could receive early CPR before the arrival of paramedics. If dispatcher-assisted CPR is implemented in Hong Kong, the chance of survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patient could be increased. Objective 1. To evaluate whether it is evident that dispatcher-assisted CPR and dispatcher instruction [22] would improve survival of OHCA. 2. To evaluate whether these measures could be implemented in Hong Kong. Data Source PubMed was searched for articles in English language with no limit set for time of the study. The keywords were dispatcher-assisted CPR and out of hospital. No inclusion criteria were set on the publication type and other details. Results Initial PubMed search resulted in 24 articles. After reviewing the abstracts, 10 articles were selected for full-text assessment. Finally, four relevant articles were selected for the literature review. Of the four papers, two were retrospective cohort studies; one was before-after comparison study while the remaining one was randomized control trial. Three papers (Rea et al, Eisenberg et al, and Kuisma et al.) used the survival to hospital discharge as the effect measure for the primary outcome to evaluate the effectiveness of dispatcher-assisted CPR. The remaining paper (Hallstrom et al.) mainly studied the potential benefit and harm from dispatcher-assisted CPR. Using no bystander CPR as the reference group, the multivariate adjusted odds ratio of survival was 1.45 (95% CI, 1.21, 1.73) for dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR and 1.69 (95% CI, 1.42, 2.01) for bystander CPR without dispatcher assistance [2]. The percentage of total bystander-initiated CPR increased from 45% to 56% after the programme (difference: 11.1%, 95% CI, ±9.3%). Besides, the percentage discharged for dispatcher-assisted CPR group after the programme was 15% higher than that before the programme [6]. The most important findings are related to the number of cardiac arrest calls in that when the dispatcher handled on less than 4 Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) calls during the study period, the survival to hospital discharge was 22.1% compared to 38.2% and 39.4% when the dispatcher handled 4 to 9 calls or more than 9 calls (p = 0.0227 for the three groups) [8]. With telephone guided CPR, the survival to hospital discharge was 43.1% compared with 31.7% when CPR instructions were not provided (p = 0.0453) [8]. In patients (n = 3,320) receiving advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) a total of 993 (29.9%) was found to be benefited from dispatcher-assisted CPR [7]. Conclusion Instructions by dispatcher can improve bystander CPR rates, which in turn increases the chance of survival [26]. Dispatcher-assisted CPR is worth considering to be recommended to all callers reporting a patient in cardiac arrest in Hong Kong. / published_or_final_version / Public Health / Master / Master of Public Health

The subject of this Master's work is as following: the preparation of the officers of Statute Organizations for lending the first aid. The goal of the research is to find out readiness of the officers of Statute organizations to lending the first aid. This goal formulates these tasks: - To study and summarize scientific literature regarding the choosen subject. - To elucidate the activity of Statute organizations in Lithuania and foreign countries, to clear up their main goal and functions. - To look through the documents timelimiting the compulsory education of the first aid. - To elucidate the level of knowledge of the officers of Statute organizations and their readiness to lend the first aid. - To foresee the possibilities to improve lending the first aid. The methods of the research used in this paper: · Theoretical: pedagogical medicinal literature standard documents related with the subject, analytical summary in order to reveal more important questions of the investigated problems. · Empiric: testing the level of knowledge of the officers of Statute Organizations in the first aid. Questioning of the officers of Statute organizations in order to find out their readiness of lend the first aid and the most frequent problems connected with it. Preparation and fulfilling their questionnaire. · The statistic analysis of empiric data – absolute frequency calculation. Fire – Prevention and Rescue Department and Police Department officers participated in... [to full text]

In cases involving the rescue of people in need of immediate medical care, it is often thought that the responsibility to save the lives of the imperilled falls to advanced professionals, such as paramedics, doctors, nurses, etc. This tells only part of the story, however, as in many cases the first point of contact for a person under duress is non-professional bystanders – average people with often little to no training in first aid or medicine. If the first point of contact is the bystander, do these bystanders have an obligation to help? Even if we assume that it is good to help people in need, the answer is not immediately obvious. Matters become more complicated when the bystander does have training that would make their intervention efficacious in helping the victim. Are they expected to help because they are trained and could presumably help more? This thesis seeks to examine this question and argue the following two conclusions: first, in terms of rescue cases, trained bystanders, whom I call informed rescuers, are morally required to act because of their training; and second, given the special role of knowledge in rescue, those who do not possess training in first aid can be held morally blameworthy for failing to know how to act in rescue cases. Because of this, everyone ought to learn basic first aid.

Thesis (M.D.) -- University of Adelaide, based on a study conducted in the Dept. of Social and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 1973. / Appendix in back pocket.