Adult Resuscitation in Primary Care

Abstract

As a doctor, at any stage of your training, you may in the course of your work, and sometimes outside it, be called upon to administer resuscitation to either a patient or another person. All general practitioner's (GP) practices should have a defibrillator, and defibrillators are often available in public places such as stations and supermarkets. The Quality and Outcomes Framework rewards practices for regularly updating cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills of practice clinical and non-clinical staff (education indicators 1 and 5). In addition, all members of the public should be encouraged to consider taking the basic training as the earlier cardiopulmonary resuscitation is initiated after a collapse, the more likely it is to succeed.