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Two independent samples of 800 lay CPR trainees from an original cohort of
7584 were surveyed postally 4 years after training. Only 2% of respondents
had used CPR, but 92 had used other aspects of their life support training.
Those who had retrained were more confident than those who had not and 89%
of those who had not retrained were willing to do so. More than 80% expres
sed willingness to perform full CPR on casualties who were unknown to therm
, but this fell to 40% where facial blood was present and 48% where the vic
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