Comparing 1997 Resuscitation Council (UK) recovery position with recovery position of 1992 European Resuscitation Council guidelines: a user's perspective.

Both the 1992 and the 1997 recovery positions were demonstrated to 100 employees attending for Basic Life Support resuscitation training at a district general hospital (Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust). They used both positions, experiencing being the first-aider and the casualty and then completed a closed questionnaire. The results were evaluated from this 100% response. In every aspect the 1992 or 'How' position was preferred both in terms of ease of use and comfort during the procedure by the majority of each sample group. In every comparison the 1992 position was preferred highly significantly, (P < 0.001) using chi-square statistical analysis.