School children and teachers in the Western Education and Library Board in Northern Ireland.
A course of instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) – the ‘ABC for life’ programme – specifically designed to teach 10–12-year-old children basic life support skills.
Medical students taught teachers from the Western Education and Library Board area of Northern Ireland how to teach basic life support skills to year 7 pupils in their schools. Pupils were given a 22-point questionnaire to assess knowledge of basic life support immediately before and after a teacher led training session.
Children instructed in cardiopulmonary resuscitation using this three-tier training had a significantly improved score following training (57.2%and 77.7%, respectively, p < 0.001).
This study demonstrates that primary school teachers, previously trained by medical students, can teach BLS effectively to 10–12-year-old children using the ‘ABC for life’ programme.
![]() Resuscitation, Volume 74, Issue 3, September 2007, Pages 572-573 Peter Iblher, Jeanette Pietsch, Robert F. Wolff, Holger Harbs, Hanns Iblher cle&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F2007&_sk=999259996&view=c&wchp=dGLzVzz-zSkWb&md5=05bced6ccaeab0502c3ffce9ebf0da66&ie=/sdarticle.pdf"> ![]() |
![]() Resuscitation, Volume 72, Issue 2, February 2007, Pages 270-279 M. Connolly, P. Toner, D. Connolly, D.R. McCluskey Abstract class="mlktScroll"> class="h3">Summaryclass="h4">BackgroundLess than 1%of the general public know how to assess or manage someone who has collapsed. It has been estimated that if 15–20%of the population were capable of performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), mortality of out of hospital cardiac arrest could be decreased significantly. Training basic life support (BLS) skills to school children would be the most cost effective way of achieving this goal and ensuring that a large proportion of the population acquire basic life saving skills. |
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