COMPRESSION-ONLY CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AS AN ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR NURSING STUDENTS – AN EVALUATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Aim/Objective: To examine, evaluate and analyse the validity of compression-only CPR developed by the AHA (2010) as an assessment tool that can be used by nursing students. Methods: Search engines/databases were Proquest, Medline and CINAHL. The PICO guide helped in the search and eliminated all the irrelevant literatures. The populations were adult victims/patients resuscitated with compression-only CPR. Of the 100 studies, only 5 were used. The cycle of compression-only CPR on adult out of hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrests/sudden deaths are systematically reviewed according to their strengths and weaknesses. Results: The relevance and benefit of compression-only CPRs can be integrated to the nursing education with proper body mechanics. Student nurses can achieve survival rate among adult populations with less than 5 minutes of sudden death/cardiac arrest during an initiation of the cycles of compression-only CPRs, that requires no significant one superior hand placement on the COC (p=0.4); a >100 compression rates per minute (p=0.0083); deep chest compressions (p=<0.001); chest recoils after every chest compressions (p=<0.025); and an 11 seconds minimal interruptions (p=0.05).