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Improving resuscitation skills in psychiatric hospitals

A multidimensional problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Tony Winston  and
Gary Drybala
Tony Winston*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Brandon Mental Health Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW
Gary Drybala
Affiliation:
Leicestershire Mental Health Services NHS Trust, Brandon Mental Health Unit, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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There is currently concern that junior psychiatrists lack adequate skill in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. However, little attention has been given to the equally important issues of nurse training, organisation and the provision of equipment and drugs which are appropriate to psychiatric wards. This paper describes the work of the Leicestershire Mental Health Services Resuscitation Committee and makes suggestions as to how these problems may be approached.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 9 , September 1997 , pp. 557 - 560
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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