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  Introduction: Cardiopulmonary arrest is one of the most important medical emergencies. Nowadays the importance of resuscitation is clear. Researches show that 20 to 30% of these patients are rescued by CPR. Restoring to life chance increases 2 to 4 times if resuscitation operations begin during 4 minutes, and since nurses are among the first rescuers, this study is carried out in order to investigate CCU nurses,�knowledge and revenue regarding adult CPR.   Methods & Materials: This descriptive analytical study was carried out in order to determin CCU Nurses,�knowledge and revenue about adult CPR. The present study is done on all CCU nurses of Taleghani hospital as the only CCU Center of Urmia University of Medical Sciences.   Results: Findings of the study indicated that the most percentage of study samples were: %54.8 in 36-45 yrs age group %74.2 female 77.4 married %90.3 licentiated nurse and %19.4 had more than 10 yrs career antecedents, respectively. Also %74 had done end tracheal in tubation, %96.8 had participated in CPR operations, %9.7 were very skillful in CPR, and %16.1 were expert in exploiting ECT in CPR.   Conclusion : Paying attention to the obtained results %74.2 of the samples had inserted end tracheal tube, only %6.5 of them were very skillful in this field. The results of this study showed that anthorities must pay more attention to education service and retouching courses of nurses.

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