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Group Size in Basic Life Support (BLS) Courses

NCT03773861 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2021-02-03

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

  • Educational Problems
  • Resuscitation

Interventions

OTHER

errors made in one BLS session

BLS instructors have to oversee a standardized BLS training session, where standardized errors are made by trained volunteers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sabine Nabecker, M.D. · University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-12-10
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2019-12-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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