The evaluation of instruction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation for dental college students

Abstract

We have instructed dental college students in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Tokyo Dental College and evaluated the efficacy of the instruction by questionaires
whether the students could make a proper diagnosis and do the appropriate treatment or not when the patients who had fainting fit during dental treatment. Only one third of the students could diagnose correctly. Forty percent of them could check vital signs of the patients in the emergency situation, and half of the students were on the strain. Although seventy percent of the students thought that the training of CPR which they had been taught was helpful, actually, the instruction is not practical perfectly. We think that the training program had to be improved in a more practical way.