title: Presence of family members during cardio-pulmonary resuscitation after necessary amendments.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To find out the attitudes of health professionals and family members of the deceased, about a witnessed cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedure.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional analytical study was carried out at Combined Military Hospital Lahore from January 2007 to June 2007. Two hundred and ninety persons related to 190 deceased patients, 40 physicians and 20 nurses were interviewed and were asked to fill a proforma to asses their views about presence of family members during a cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ninety eight percent of the family members wanted to be there while cardio-pulmonary resuscitation of their patient was in progress. None of the physicians favoured a witnessed resuscitation, while 3 out of 20 nurses favoured it.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study suggests that institutions should consider establishing programmes of witnessed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for family members.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, CMH, Lahore, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Manzar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zakaria
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Siddique
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged