OBJECTIVE:

To determine the impact of the intervention strategy and basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills on the part of the resident of Gynecology and Obstetrics on the survival of the patient with cardiorespiratory arrest in a second-level care hospital.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

Prospective and cross-sectional study, carried out in the period from March to August 2018, including all the resident physicians of the specialty of Gynecology and Obstetrics of HGR 1 of Ciudad Obregón, who underwent pre and post intervention evaluation of Vital Support Basic in the pregnant patient. To observe the differences in the level of clinical knowledge between the groups, Kruskal-Wallis was used and to measure the difference between the groups, the Mann Whitney U was used. For the descriptive statistical analysis, measures of central tendency were used.

RESULTS:

In the immediate final evaluation, there were 20 residents evaluated, 19 (95%) approved and 1 non-approving (5%). Average final evaluation, of 19 residents evaluated, 16 (84%) approved, and 3 (16%) did not approve.

CONCLUSION:

A favorable effect of the intervention strategy applied to residents of Gynecology and Obstetrics was demonstrated, since statistically significant results were obtained.