TY - JOUR T1 - Why do we practice CPR? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 130 LP - 131 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X483210 VL - 60 IS - 571 AU - Hamish Maclaren Y1 - 2010/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/571/130.2.abstract N2 - ‘Like most GPs and practice nurses,’ writes Peter Toon (‘Do we spend too much time with Nellie the Elephant?’),1‘I do (my basic-life support update) every year, because there are four QOF points attached to having all clinical staff trained in basic life support within the last 18 months.’He then puts forward a rather reluctant argument demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); reluctant, because he has never encountered a cardiac arrest in the GP surgery in a quarter of a century, nor has anybody else ever told him of such an encounter.This surprised me. At my own last CPR update the facilitator asked who had been present at a cardiac arrest in the past 6 months and there was a show of … ER -