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Abstract
Background: There are many factors that affect quality of provided cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), as it can improves return of spontaneous circulation and prevent sudden death. Aim: The present study conducted to assess factors affecting performance of CPR team. Research design: A descriptive exploratory design. Setting: intensive care unit and emergency department of Wady El-Natroun Central Hospital. Subject: A convenient sample of all available nurses (N=55), and all available ICU, CCU and ER physician (N=6). Tools: Three tools were developed by the investigator to collect data and they were; CPR team knowledge assessment questionnaire, CPR quality assessment observational checklists and factors affecting CPR team performance checklists. Result: There was a statistical significant relationship between demographic characteristics (age of the studied subjects, education, years of experience and CPR training courses) regarding to total knowledge of the studied subjects, CPR teams’ practice and factors affecting performance of CPR team. While there was a statistical significant relationship between total CPR teams’ practice regarding to total knowledge of the studied subjects and factors affecting their performance.Conclusion: It was concluded that, several demographic factors were affecting the performance (age, years of experience, level of education and attendance of CPR courses), in addition to the organizational factors and personal factors. Also it was found that the knowledge level was affecting the performance. Recommendations: The study recommended the importance of implementing continuous training programs and recommended to obtain BLS and ALS before practicing the profession.
Keywords: Factors affecting performance, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and team.