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Objective: To analyse the level of knowledge of out-of-hospital emergency care personnel on the management of Cardiac Arrest (CA) in pregnant women, to determine whether there are deficiencies in training and to assess the creation of a course on cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pregnant women for non-obstetric personnel. Materials and methods: We analysed the results of five questions addressing the management of CA in pregnant women from a questionnaire conducted prior to the Out-of-Hospital Obstetric Emergencies course to determine the level of knowledge of doctors and nurses regarding out-of-hospital emergencies in the management of CA in pregnant women. Results: After analysing four questions related to the management of CA in pregnant women, the mean proportion of correct answers was 54.48%; only 21.79% of participants answered all questions correctly, and 14.4% did not answer any questions correctly. Regarding professionals' perceptions about their abilities to perform CPR in a pregnant woman, 67.12% of students did not think they were sufficiently trained to perform resuscitation in a pregnant woman, and 79.3% did not know how to perform a perimortem caesarean section. Conclusion: There are deficiencies in the knowledge about the management of resuscitation in a pregnant woman; moreover, outof-hospital emergency care personnel perceived a lack of training on this subject. Therefore, an Advanced Cardiac Life Support in Pregnancy course must be created for staff who do not work in a delivery room, since these training needs are not covered in Advanced Cardiac Life Support in Adults courses.