Introduction: Children are exposed to life threatening accidents, because they can't recognize the dangers in the environment. Beside respiratory tract obstruction, the reasons for cardiac arrest are problems with breathing, suffocation, drowning or genetic heart disease.
Purpose: The purpose of the diploma work is to present, in detail, the states that demand the usage of basic resuscitation procedure, and to present how the automated external defibrillator is used on babies and children. We also wanted to know what the current knowledge about basic resuscitation procedure and the automated external defibrillator for babies and children in Slovenia is.
Methods: In the theoretical part of the diploma work, we made a review of domestic, foreign and scientific literature that was issued between 2013 and 2019 with the help of web search engines such as DiKUL, Google scholar and COBBIB. In the empiric part of the diploma work we used a survey questionnaire, in which there were questions about basic resuscitation procedure and the usage of automatic external defibrillator for babies and children. We also used one older literature, because we didn’t find some of the facts in the new literature. The questionnaire was accessible through a web portal called »1ka«. We collected the data from the survey between December 2018 and January 2019.
Results: The survey was completed in full length by 432 respondents. There was 358 (83 %) women and 74 (17 %) men that participated. According to the results, we can conclude, that 92% of the participants would know how to resuscitate a baby, because they knew how and where the chest compressions should be performed. 69% of participants would know how to resuscitate a drowning child. 32 % of participants would know how to react in a situation where they would find an unresponsive child. In 40 % they agreed that you can use the automatic external defibrillator until the age of 8. The results have shown that participants with kids have less knowledge about usage of pediatric basic resuscitation procedure and an automatic external defibrillator than participants that don't have kids. We found out, that there are not many differences in knowledge between genders about usage of basic resuscitation procedure and an automatic external defibrillator. Respondents with higher degree of education were a lot more self-critical about their knowledge than respondents with lower education.
Discussion and conclusion: The results show that the knowledge about basic resuscitation procedure for kids, is very divergent and in general not that good. Implementation measures about basic resuscitation procedure for babies and kids are different than with adults. That is why people that don’t have professional knowledge about basic resuscitation procedure should know the differences. Respondents still have restraints or fear about using basic resuscitation procedures, but 81% would still try to help a stranger by using them. We compared the knowledge of multiple researches and the knowledge of our respondents was better than theirs.
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