Abstract:Background:
Ischemic heart disease is the main cause of mortality in Brazil. Sudden cardiac death is often the initial presentation of a myocardial infarction, however Basic Life Support (BLS) undertraining is real not only for lay rescuers but for health care providers in Brazil. A group of medical students from the Universidade Federal do Ceara (UFC) founded in 1996 the Cardiorespiratory Resuscitation Education Program (PERC) with a goal of disseminating BLS techniques.
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