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.
cleURL&_udi=B6T19-4JW7X1K-1&_user=2795313&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=article&_cdi=4885&_sort=v&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=1186&_acct=C000058823&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2795313&md5=c42744bf90f09e0369fee9ecca4abaae">Laypersons may learn basic life support in 24 min using a personal resuscitation manikin Resuscitation, Volume 69, Issue 3, June 2006, Pages 435-442 Dan Lou Isbye, Lars Simon Rasmussen, Freddy Knudsen Lippert, Søren Finnemann Rudolph, Charlotte Vibeke Ringsted Abstract class="mlktScroll"> class="h3">Summaryclass="h4">BackgroundBystander basic life support (BLS) is an important part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and improves outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, the general population has poor BLS skills. Several training initiatives could be used to improve this situation and the challenge is to find the most efficient one. |
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