García RJF, García AGJE, Salcedo RAL

Language: Spanish
References: 17
Page: 55-61
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ABSTRACT

Witness resuscitation concept was born on 1984 in Michigan with opposite opinions by health care providers and still now is an actual topic that hasn´t been resolved in México. To know how our medical culture takes care of this topic could make new care politics in benefice of patients. The objective of this study was to know the health care provider´s point of view about allow witness resuscitation and to list the reasons that they said to its practices or against it. This was a descriptive, observational and transversal study with a cuali-cuantitative point of view, we elaborated a recollection data model by a Delphy Group, sociodemographic, personal opinions and experiences with witness resuscitation were collected. We found that the general physicians accept more frequently witness resuscitation than those who are has specialty, there was a negative relation between age and accept witness resuscitation. There wasn´t a unique cultural model to be in favor or against witness resuscitation. Witness resuscitation is nor an accepted practices by the health care staff, it seems that general physicians are agree with it.

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