title: Clinical Awareness of Do's and Don'ts of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Among University Medical Students-A Questionnaire Study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Medical students today are tomorrow's future doctors. One of the key skills that students should develop during their graduation training is to be prepared for emergency life saving measures like cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) anytime, anywhere. The students play integral role in learning, mastering and inculcating the most pragmatic clinical skill of CPR.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  a) To evaluate the CPR awareness among undergraduate medical students. b) To screen the knowledge regarding accurate, effective CPR procedural techniques and various barriers of CPR failure in clinical practice from student perspective. c) To ascertain interest in CPR training programs and also inculcating CPR as an active part of clinical practice in future.
  
  
  METHODS
  The questionnaire comprised of three parts, first one dealing with general questions to know the importance of CPR in clinical practice, second one comprised of the main goal and accuracy of CPR intervention and the last segment consisted of questions targeting the indications, methods and effectiveness of CPR.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive statistics and multiple response analyses were done by using SPSS 17.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The students had good knowledge about the importance of CPR in clinical practice and stand average in knowing its indications and effectiveness. Whereas, only 1.2% of them were completely aware about the universal compression ventilation ratio, and 20.4% were aware of the current order of CPR being compression, airway and breathing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Though, CPR awareness is good among the students but skills of CPR have to be mastered by proper certified training programs at regular intervals and knowledge has to be updated with the changing trends in CPR.
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Meena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kumari K
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor,Department of Pharmacology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Mohan Babu
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Amberkar
authors.affiliation: Undergraduate, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal,Karnataka India.
authors.forename: Suhas
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alur S
authors.affiliation: Undergraduate, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal,Karnataka India.
authors.forename: Pavan Madhukar
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Bhat
authors.affiliation: Undergraduate, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University , Manipal, Karnataka India.
authors.forename: Siddharth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bansal
keywords: Clinical practice; Future doctors; Learning; Lifesaving technique; Undergraduates