Group Size in Basic Life Support (BLS) Courses

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Status: Completed

Conditions: Educational Problems; Resuscitation

Treatments: Other: errors made in one BLS session

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03773861

Req- 2017- 00577

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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64 participants in 1 patient group

Participants

Other group

Description:

Active BLS- Instructors at the Bern Simulation and CPR- Center (BeSiC), at the Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. Participants have to oversee a BLS instructional session, where standardized errors are performed by trained volunteers.

Treatment:

Other: errors made in one BLS session