CPR Retention
A two-year retention study of individuals trained in CPR revealed a significant decline in skills, indicating the need for some type of retraining periodically.
These results, published in a recent report by the ACT Foundation, showed the major problem areas to be diagnostic steps, low hand position and low ventilation volumes.
Students tested at six-month intervals performed better on tests than those tested only once in two years. The 1976 retention study was based on the Seattle Medic II program, initiated in 1971 to teach students the basic techniques of life support.
