Basic Life Support Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Refresher in MS2 at St George's University

Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skill Retention in Medical Students

Treatments: Other: Multimedia; Other: Hands-on practice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01832012

SGUCPR1

Details and patient eligibility

About

175 second year medical students were assessed on their BLS CPR skill retention after an approximate one year after taking the initial certification class, and the investigators assessed which type of refresher course would be most effective in improving the students' CPR skills. Group 2 had no refresher, Group 3 had a multimedia refresher, and Group 4 had the same multimedia refresher plus hands on practice on a Laerdal BLS manikin. The investigators hypothesized that Group 4 would perform CPR skills with the highest competency compared to the other two groups.

Enrollment: 175 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Voluntary second year medical student

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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175 participants in 3 patient groups

Video refresher

Active Comparator group

Description:

Group 3, received 7 minute video refresher prior to examination.

Treatment:

Other: Multimedia

Video refresher and hands-on practice

Experimental group

Description:

Group 4, received same 7 minute video refresher, along with hands-on practice along with the video on a Laerdal BLS manikin.

Treatment:

Other: Multimedia

Other: Hands-on practice

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Group 2