Overview The Traffic Police Knowledge Regarding The Algorithm of Basic Life Support (BLS) in Medan 2015

Abstract

Traffic accident will be the seventh biggest human killer in the world, so that intervention Basic Life Support with a good algorithm is very important to reduce the death rate of victims of accidents. This study aimed to look at the level of knowledge of traffic police on the algorithms of Basic Life Support in Medan Police Traffic Unit. The method used in this research is the descriptive method with cross sectional study design. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling with number of sample was 36 respondents. The results of this study indicate the level of knowledge of traffic police in the poor category is 23 respondents (63.9%), respondents who have enough category was 13 respondents (36.1%) and no respondents who have good category. Therefore we can concluded that the level of knowledge of traffic police in Medan was poor category.