Why do we practice CPR?

摘要

‘Like most GPs and practice nurses,’ writes Peter Toon (‘Do we spend too much time with Nellie the Elephant?’),1‘I do (my basic-life support update) every year, because there are four QOF points attached to having all clinical staff trained in basic life support within the last 18 months.’He then puts forward a rather reluctant argument demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); reluctant, because he has never encountered a cardiac arrest in the GP surgery in a quarter of a century, nor has anybody else ever told him of such an encounter.