Educational Problems, Resuscitation
Conditions
Brief summary
Basic Life Support (BLS) is important for outcome in cardiac arrest.Therefore, it is crucial to improve the quality of education in resuscitation training. Better training will eventually lead to more effective CPR skills in course participants. BLS courses in both international resuscitation associations (European Resuscitation Council and American Heart Association are typically taught in small groups of 6 participants. In reality group sizes of up to 10 participants are used, because these courses are highly demanded and cost intensive. There is no evidence for the effective group size to be clinical and cost effective. Therefore the investigators perform this prospective study to determine the maximum number of participants an instructor can oversee without missing more than 20% of errors made during an instructional BLS session.
Interventions
OTHERerrors made in one BLS session
BLS instructors have to oversee a standardized BLS training session, where standardized errors are made by trained volunteers.
Sponsors
Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Active BLS- Instructors at the Bern Simulation and CPR-Center (BeSiC), at the Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
Exclusion criteria
* Decline to participate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The threshold of number of course participants in a BLS educational session | BLS educational session 10 minutes | How many volunteers can be overseen by one instructor who still is able to correctly identify and correct serious BLS errors of all course participants. |
Countries
Switzerland
Outcome results
None listed