Abstract
OBJECTIVES: 
 The objectives of this study were to assess the knowledge of nursing staff those who are working in critical care unit in Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar. 
 METHODOLOGY:
 A cross sectional study design was used. The participants were recruited through convenient sampling technique that was working in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Critical Care Unit (CCU) from last 6 months. Data were collected through life-threatening arrhythmias questionnaire and analyzed on SPSS version 22. 
 RESULTS:
 Majority of participants were diploma holder and graduated staff. 46% participants received Basic Life Skill (BLS), 14% Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) and 32% didn’t get any training. Most of the participants didn’t have knowledge related to the life threating arrhythmias i.e., 86%.
 CONCLUSION:
 We observe in our study that majority of nursing staffs were unable to identify life-threatening rhythm of patients. Nursing staff needs to improve academic and ECG training in critical care unit to increase knowledge of staff and directly effect on hospital mortality rate.
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