Knowledge, Practices and Attitudes in Basic Life Support of Patients Pediatrics with Cardiac Arrest in Non-Health Related Areas

Abstract

Although cardiac arrest in children and infants, it is a serious situation that requires immediate management, most people do not have enough knowledge and skills to manage it. It doesn't need to be a doctor or paramedic to help in these
circumstances, anyone could be part of caring for a child or infant in cardiac arrest. The objective of this article is to determine and evaluate the knowledge, practices and attitudes that people not related to the health field have, about Basic Life Support
in pediatric patients. The study was carried out in the 15 parishes of the urban area in Cuenca-Ecuador during the period 2021, where timely care for people with health problems in a cardiac arrest or obstruction situation of the pathway air with
techniques on cardiopulmonary animation and resuscitation protocols which are necessary until the victim can receive medical attention. The Methodology used accounts for a descriptive study based on secondary sources of other investigations
carried out in environments at the national level such as the Isidro Ayora Hospital in the city of Loja, knowledge acquired in basic pediatric resuscitation CPR and at an international level study carried out in an education center in Spain in knowledge
about SVB. The study on knowledge, practices and attitudes in basic support of Pediatric Patients with Cardiac Arrest is based on the application of primary sources with data collection techniques such as the questionnaire with structured questions
on a Likert scale, which was applied to 384 people of ages between 18 and 64 years old, using a stratified sample with a confidence interval of 95%, valid in this type of study and sociodemographic questions (age, gender, place of origin, level of education). Regarding the Results, the floor-ceiling effect was applied using the Excel program, in terms of attitudes more
than 50% of the participants present a good attitude towards the SVBP, with respect to the knowledge and practices, of the 9 questions posed, only 2 exceeded 50%, this means that the knowledge and practices in SVBP are less than 45%.